{"id":9707,"date":"2010-10-01T09:30:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=9707"},"modified":"2010-10-01T09:31:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:31:04","slug":"what-is-a-learning-futurist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/10\/01\/what-is-a-learning-futurist\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Learning Futurist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teachingcollegemath.com\/2010\/09\/what-is-a-learning-futurist\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>What is a Learning Futurist?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from Teaching College Math by Maria Andersen<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>So, what is a futurist?<\/strong> First, a futurist does not  \u201cpredict\u201d the future, they use foresight skills to complement insight  and hindsight. \u00a0One foresight skill is basic forecasting (trend  analysis), but this only works if the field under investigation is  relatively stable. \u00a0In unstable fields, futurists use scenario planning  to project several possible outcomes \u2013 by examining the possibilities,  an organization can plan for the most common outcomes, or at least think  through some of the planning necessary for extreme possibilities  (often, several extreme possibilities have some commonalities).  \u00a0Futurists have to think creatively about the direction and meaning of  trends, not just within a field, but in the surrounding fields. \u00a0You  could say that Futurists have to be excellent systems thinkers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Who does futuring?&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>So, what is a Learning Futurist, in particular?&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a Learning Futurist? &#8212; from Teaching College Math by Maria Andersen So, what is a futurist? First, a futurist does not \u201cpredict\u201d the future, they use foresight skills to complement insight and hindsight. \u00a0One foresight skill is basic forecasting (trend analysis), but this only works if the field under investigation is relatively stable. [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,36,206],"tags":[587,586,676],"class_list":["post-9707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future","category-future-of-higher-education","category-trends","tag-future","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9707","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=9707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9709,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9707\/revisions\/9709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}