Type:
Activity
Level:
College, Secondary
Subject:
Foresight, Social Studies, Technology
Category:
Teach the Future Materials
Keywords:
cause-effect, consequences, creativity, implications, scenario
Infinite Futures
Incasting
Wendy Schultz
The most useful images of the future are specific and vivid. Imagining the future as a real scene leads to deeper insights, builds storytelling skills, and is more fun. This technique, called Incasting, asks students to take a generic future scenario and expand upon it by adding specific future details. Students will expand on a generic future scenario with details and use it to surface insights and questions relevant to today.
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