{"id":66824,"date":"2019-04-11T10:05:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T14:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=66824"},"modified":"2019-04-11T12:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T16:22:43","slug":"reflections-on-five-principles-for-thinking-like-a-futurist-gorbis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/04\/11\/reflections-on-five-principles-for-thinking-like-a-futurist-gorbis\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;Five Principles for Thinking Like a Futurist&#8221; [Gorbis]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/er.educause.edu\/articles\/2019\/3\/five-principles-for-thinking-like-a-futurist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Five Principles for Thinking Like a Futurist<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from er.educause.edu by Marina Gorbis<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2018 we celebrated the fifty-year anniversary of the founding of the Institute for the Future (IFTF). No other futures organization has survived for this long; we&#8217;ve actually survived our own forecasts! In these five decades we learned a lot, and we still believe\u2014even more strongly than before\u2014that systematic thinking about the future is absolutely essential for helping people make better choices today, whether you are an individual or a member of an educational institution or government organization. We view short-termism as the greatest threat not only to organizations but to society as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>In my twenty years at the Institute, I&#8217;ve developed five core principles for futures thinking:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Forget about predictions.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Focus on signals.*<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Look back to see forward.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Uncover patterns.*<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Create a community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>* From DSC:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I have a follow up thought regarding those bullet points about signals and patterns. With today&#8217;s exponential pace of technological change, I have asserted for several years now that our students &#8212; and <em>all of us<\/em> really &#8212; need to be skilled in pulse-checking the relevant landscapes around us. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m a big fan of regularly tapping into &#8212; and contributing towards &#8212; streams of content. Subscribing to RSS feeds, following organizations and\/or individuals on Twitter, connecting with people on LinkedIn, etc. Doing so will help us identify trends, patterns, and the signals that Marina talks about in her article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">It reminds me of the following graphic from January 2017:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64858 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/PulseChecking-Radars-DSC-Feb2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/PulseChecking-Radars-DSC-Feb2017.jpg 539w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/PulseChecking-Radars-DSC-Feb2017-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Principles for Thinking Like a Futurist &#8212; from er.educause.edu by Marina Gorbis Excerpt: In 2018 we celebrated the fifty-year anniversary of the founding of the Institute for the Future (IFTF). No other futures organization has survived for this long; we&#8217;ve actually survived our own forecasts! In these five decades we learned a lot, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,61,86,209,115,498,302,112,200,823,159,72,210,37,36,35,3,419,102,7,15,815,431,44,436,480,293,310,491,66,212,460,195,206,214,299,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-blogging","category-business-side-of-he","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-colleges","category-communities-of-practice","category-community-colleges","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-credentialing","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-emerging-technologies","category-future","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-lifelong-learning","category-microlearning","category-organizational-change","category-pace-of-change","category-reinvent","category-society","category-sociology","category-staying-relevant","category-streams-of-content","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-technology-general","category-tools","category-trends","category-universities","category-workplace","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66824"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66833,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66824\/revisions\/66833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}