Self-directed Learning won’t be solved with the Silicon Valley Start-up Mindset or its Algorithms - Part I
Why is the Silicon Valley model incompatible with the Future Scouts vision for decentralized, self-directed, lifelong learning?Erlich Bachman of HBO’ Silicon Valley goes on a vision question for a new nameBefore discussing the larger picture, and issues of sovereignty, it’s important for grassroots organizations like Future Scouts to take stock of what autonomy is worth. To us at Future Scouts, autonomy means having the capacity to make choices in your life that are your own. It means enablin...
Self-directed Learning won’t be solved with the Silicon Valley Start-up Mindset or its Algorithms - Part I
Why is the Silicon Valley model incompatible with the Future Scouts vision for decentralized, self-directed, lifelong learning?Erlich Bachman of HBO’ Silicon Valley goes on a vision question for a new nameBefore discussing the larger picture, and issues of sovereignty, it’s important for grassroots organizations like Future Scouts to take stock of what autonomy is worth. To us at Future Scouts, autonomy means having the capacity to make choices in your life that are your own. It means enablin...
A Future Scout is…🐱🚀
We get asked regularly what our definition of a Future Scout is. We don’t believe its any one thing — its what all of us can envision it to be together. Over the years we’ve collected some descriptions of what a Future Scout is to our participants and our mentors for the program. Here are a few that we’ve compiled into a poem for all of you.A Future Scout is…a self-directed learner who blooms through learning, exploration and discovery.an engaged citizen who values the differences and similar...
A Future Scout is…🐱🚀
We get asked regularly what our definition of a Future Scout is. We don’t believe its any one thing — its what all of us can envision it to be together. Over the years we’ve collected some descriptions of what a Future Scout is to our participants and our mentors for the program. Here are a few that we’ve compiled into a poem for all of you.A Future Scout is…a self-directed learner who blooms through learning, exploration and discovery.an engaged citizen who values the differences and similar...
Self-directed, lifelong learning, Part I — A paradigm shift
Educational institutions want you to think in terms of “years and grades” — as if learning or knowledge had a definitive start and end dates, or that all learners can be measured the same.Author unknown.When we go to school we’re introduced to a set curriculum and a class schedule outlining what our course load will look like for the next 9 months. We’re put on a schedule of what we’ll read, what we’ll see and experience. The underlying idea is that someone else knows what we need to know, an...
Self-directed, lifelong learning, Part I — A paradigm shift
Educational institutions want you to think in terms of “years and grades” — as if learning or knowledge had a definitive start and end dates, or that all learners can be measured the same.Author unknown.When we go to school we’re introduced to a set curriculum and a class schedule outlining what our course load will look like for the next 9 months. We’re put on a schedule of what we’ll read, what we’ll see and experience. The underlying idea is that someone else knows what we need to know, an...
Scouting the Future — The Handbook of 21st Century Survival Skills
It’s 2021, and there’s no doubt that we’re living through the midst of major systems upheaval. We’re simultaneously facing ecological systems collapse, an ongoing global pandemic, a weaponized media and government kleptocracies, just to name an obvious few. At the same time, we’ve never been so globally connected, nor experienced such rapid changes in all parts of our life. Humanity is experiencing a vast shift that challenges our fundamental ideas about work, life and play. New technologies,...
Scouting the Future — The Handbook of 21st Century Survival Skills
It’s 2021, and there’s no doubt that we’re living through the midst of major systems upheaval. We’re simultaneously facing ecological systems collapse, an ongoing global pandemic, a weaponized media and government kleptocracies, just to name an obvious few. At the same time, we’ve never been so globally connected, nor experienced such rapid changes in all parts of our life. Humanity is experiencing a vast shift that challenges our fundamental ideas about work, life and play. New technologies,...
What’s Future Scouts About?
Today’s students will need to be creative and adaptive to thrive in the 21st century. The Future Scouts provide a window into a bold new world. Let’s go exploring.Imagine a conversation where youth, parents, educators and elders come together as peers to discuss how to prepare youth for living their most fulfilling future. That’s where Future Scouts steps in. Future Scouts is a next-generation youth service organization on a mission to prepare and equip learners of all ages with the skills, l...
What’s Future Scouts About?
Today’s students will need to be creative and adaptive to thrive in the 21st century. The Future Scouts provide a window into a bold new world. Let’s go exploring.Imagine a conversation where youth, parents, educators and elders come together as peers to discuss how to prepare youth for living their most fulfilling future. That’s where Future Scouts steps in. Future Scouts is a next-generation youth service organization on a mission to prepare and equip learners of all ages with the skills, l...
