Simulation Skills: This is Your Brain on the Future
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Simulation Skills: This is Your Brain on the Future at Coursera Overview
Duration | 12 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Simulation Skills: This is Your Brain on the Future at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Course 3 of 5 in the Futures Thinking Specialization
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level
- Approx. 12 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Simulation Skills: This is Your Brain on the Future at Coursera Course details
- Do you want to learn how to simulate the future more creatively and more effectively? This course is for you.
- Humans are the only living creatures with the ability to think about and make plans for the long- term future. Even so, our brains don?t always make it easy. Over the past decade, scientists have discovered a number of neurological ?road blocks? to effective futures thinking. These glitches in the brain make it harder for us to accurately predict how we?ll feel and what we?re likely to do, when a particular future arrives. They lead us to make faulty assumptions about which futures are likely or unlikely to happen. And they convince us we have less power to shape and influence the future than we actually do ? leaving us stuck in the present.
- In this course, you?ll learn how to overcome these obstacles so you can think about the future more strategically and creatively. You?ll practice simulation techniques for ?unsticking? the mind when it comes to seeing what?s possible in the future and accepting how things could be different. You?ll also learn how to lead others through ?first-person future? simulations, which have been shown in scientific studies to improve strategy and increase motivation and hope for the future. Along the way, leading futurists from the Institute from the Future will share some of their most challenging forecasts to help you stretch your imagination and improve your simulation skills.
- This course will ensure that you can put all of your new forecasting skills to the best possible use, by helping you nudge your brain toward more effective ways of simulating and preparing for the future.
- Many thanks to the Enlight Foundation and the Enlight Collaborative, which provided a grant to support the creation of this course.
Simulation Skills: This is Your Brain on the Future at Coursera Curriculum
Introduction to Mental Simulation
Welcome to the course! Meet your professor Jane McGonigal
What can't be different in the future?
Technique #1: Predict the Past
Technique #2: Remember the Future
Technique #3: Hard Empathy
Neurological Pathways of Simulation
Take a two-minute survey about the future!
Simulation Skills Brief: Your "cheat sheet" for this course
What is Mental Simulation?
Future-Proof Your Brain
How to "Fill in the Blanks" of Your Brain
Neurological Pathways of Simulation
First-Person Futures
Your Future Self is a Stranger
Thinking in Facts versus Thinking in First Person
Let's try some first person futures!
First Person Creativity
The Superstruct Game
Why Your Future Self is a Stranger
Welcome to the Internet of Things
Superstruct Scenario
Why the brain thinks differently about your future self
Alternative Futures
100 Ways Anything Could Be Different
SCENARIO: The Future of Marriage
Introduction to Alternative Futures
How to Envision Alternative Future (Part 1)
How to Envision Alternative Futures (Part 2)
Alternative Futures for Caregiving in 2031
The Future of Marriage Project (How We Did It)
TOOL: Envision Alternative Futures
Future of Caregiving in 2031
Advanced Simulation Topics
Introduction to Advanced Simulation Topics
The Simtainer
What is Afrofuturism?
Full Body Simulation Part 1
Full Body Simulation Part 2
Congratulations on finishing this course!
Future of Video Simulation
Future of Touch Simulation (Haptics)
Black to the Future (Afrofuturism)
Experiential Futures Show and Tell
Future of Newport, Year 2061
An invitation to join our free Alumni Network
New Kinds of Simulation
Afrofuturism
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