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Wish For The Future

A technology workshop

Mission: The W4TF workshop will combine interactive storytelling and new technology to deliver an experiential learning experience.

Wish For The Future

How do we make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone?

Wish For The Future

How do we make the world work for 100% of humanity

In the shortest possible time

Through spontaneous cooperation

without ecological damage

or disadvantage to anyone?

Wish For The Future

How do we make the world work for 100% of humanity

In the shortest possible time

Through spontaneous cooperation

without ecological damage

or disadvantage to anyone?

What is #w4tfpr

Wish For The future is a hub of inspiration, ideas, and activities to facilitate cross-generational learning among kids and adults aged 10 - 99. Its aim is to foster a creative platform for envisioning a future in which the world will work for 100% of humanity.

What is #w4tfpr

Wish For The future is a hub of inspiration, ideas, and activities to facilitate cross-generational learning among kids and adults aged 10 - 99. Its aim is to foster a creative platform for envisioning a future in which the world will work for 100% of humanity.

Make a Wish

Using one of the following categories:culture,

economy,

education,

government,

health,

humanity,

sustainability,

or urbanization

CULTURE

economy

Education

government

Health

humanity

sustainability

urbanization

Use only 140 Characters

Just like Twitter, the wishes are only 140 characters

I wish: that ________

and then we can ________

15 Minute Wish Break

WRITE IT DOWN!

http://www.wishforthefuture.com/

Youve written your wish; Yay!

Granting Your Wish

Grant a Wish:Tell A Story

Conceive an Idea

Subject areas (social studies, service leaning, creative writing, media production, STEAM)

The grants become a way to take a broad wish and filter it into something that is tangible and executable locally.

15

Conceive an idea

Brainstorm a prototype (process, system, inventions, design, flow)

Invent the Future

Conceive an idea

Insight What is your special insight behind your wish?

Vision - ___ will provide for everyone because ___ to ___.

Solution Statement What does your wish solve?

Conceive an idea

Action Plan What things need to happen before your wish can come true?

Strategy How can you help those things happen?

Outputs How will we know your wish has come true? What will it look like?

Tell a story

Write a story, song, play, or create a video!

Tell A Story

Tell a story

Heros Journey: Choose a protagonist and use the wish to set his/her task.

Vision: Set the heros goal. Whats the context for it? What drives him to set out and do something?

Opposition: Choose an antagonist (can be a person, organization, or situation) and why it is a problem.

Tell a story

Obstacle: Create a situation that challenges your heroine in her pursuit.

Solution: How will your heros unique objective overcome the obstacle?

Risks: What are the pitfalls your heroine encounters? How does she master them?

Helpers: Who or what comes into the story to help our hero as his ideas gain traction?

Tell a story

Change: What does the accomplishment look like?

100 %: Step back and check if it really works for 100% of humanity. How might this story be continued and improved?

Output: Present your finished story in any format that inspires you: prose, poetry, song, play, short film. Upload it as a Grant to its related Wish on the WishfortheFuture.com website.

Take action

Bring attention, volunteer, change a habit, or begin a new behavior

Go to the website and access the Wish youre granting.

Click on Granting Icon

Complete Granting Form

Emails are

collected only for

communication back

to granters from

the Time Capsule.

Express the genius

of your grant

In 250 characters

or less!

A Digital Time Capsule

A Golden Record

A Golden Jumpdrive

Objective: Preserve the wishes, the stories, and ideas made during the #w4tfpr workshop

Goal: Demonstrate the value of mixed media in conveying a message for the future

Procedure: Use a variety of electronic recording devices to document the workshop

Conclusion: Archive the media on the jumpdrive and bury the time capsule

Our Story

Use mixed media to tell the story of our experience creating the future

Context:Scenes from Puerto Rico

Greetings from Puerto Rico

Sounds from Puerto Rico

Our Wishes

Record them in the Wish For The Future Website

Include them on the golden jumpdrive

Use the activities to expand on our wishes

Imagine what the future looks like

Remember

The best way to predict the future is to invent it!

Alan Kay, Macintosh Designer