The document discusses the philosophy of futurism in education as proposed by Alvin Toffler. It defines futurism and outlines its aims to prepare students for future changes through skill-based learning. A futuristic curriculum focuses on social sciences and scientific inquiry. Teachers help students identify problems and think of alternatives. Schools pioneer societal change. Toffler's trilogy discusses the waves of agriculture, industry, and information in society and how future shock occurs from rapid change. The fourth wave may include biotechnology advances.

1. Educ 601
PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATION
OF EDUCATION
FUTURISM
(ALVIN TOFFLER)
Reporter
Marilyn L. Bristol
Scope, Nature, Aims of Education, Curriculum,
Methods of Teaching, Teaching-Learning Process
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the
lightning of a fire”
William Butler Yeats

2. Futurism
Objectives:
1. Define Futurism.
2. Discuss the Aim of Futurism
3. Compare the Methods of teaching in the old and new school
4. Identify the features of Futuristic Education.
5. Discuss the curriculum of futurism
6. Identify what are the role of a teacher and the school to futuristic education
7. Enumerate and explain the Trilogy of Alvin Toffler (The Future Shock, The Third Wave and the
Powershift)

3. Futurism
• French – FUTUR
• English – Future
• understanding of some people or a group of people who believe or believe in a better
future, in the sense of being more modern, more concrete, and even believed that
humans will be able to master the universe with the technology they have later.
• proclaimed in 1909 by an Italian writer and poet, FLIPPO TOMMASO MARINETTI.
• the systematic practice of trying to predict the future. Instead of possessing a
connection to the great beyond, futurists are usually social scientists, technologists,
and other experts who use their knowledge of the past and current trends to attempt
projections of future events.
• the period of time that will come after the present time (Miriam dictionary)
• an Italian art movement of the early twentieth century that aimed to capture in art the
dynamism and energy of the modern world

4. Aims of Futurism
Helps prepare citizens specially the younger generation to respond to
change and make smart choices and develop a more pleasant future through
education. Some principles that can be applied includes:
 Complex learning environments and authentic tasks
 Social Negotiations
 Diversity of views and representations of the discussions
 The process of knowledge construction
 Learning of students towards awareness in learning

5. Features of Futuristic
Education
•Skill-based learning process
•Learning with fun
•Flexible learning patterns
• measurement of student performance
•The teachers focus on student preferences
"Education is the passport to
the future, for tomorrow
belongs to those who prepare
for it today."(Malcom X)

6. Curriculum
The contents of the curriculum are useful in the
formulation of the discipline of “social science” and the
process of scientific discovery (scientific inquiry) as a work
method for solving social problems.
 Anthropology
 Economics & management
 History
 Human services
 Political science
 Psychology
 Sociology

7. Methods of Teaching

8. The Role of the Teacher
Futurism has the same view with the notions of progressivism.
1. The teacher must make students aware of the problems faced by humans.
2. Help identify problems to solve
3. The teacher must encourage students to be able to think alternatives in
solving problem
4. The teacher must help create different learning activities simultaneously.

9. The School
1. Schools are the main agents for social, political and economic change in the
community.
2. The school’s task is to develop “social engineering: with the aim of radically
changing the face of society that is to come.
3. The school pioneered the community towards the desired new community. If
not, each individual and group will later solve community problems
individually as influence and progressivism.

10. TRILOGY ON ALVIN TOFFLER

11. PRESENTATION OF TRILOGY ON ALVIN TOFFLER

12. PRESENTATION OF TRILOGY ON ALVIN TOFFLER
“The illiterate of the 21st century,” Toffler wrote, “will
not be those who cannot read and write, but
those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”
Alvin Toffler & Heidi Toffler

13. PRESENTATION OF TRILOGY ON ALVIN TOFFLER
“Change is not necessary to life, it is life.”
Alvin Toffler & Heidi Toffler

15. Future Shock
a. Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on the
premature arrival of the future
b. Future shock is the time phenomenon, a product of the greatly
accelerated rate of change in the society, it arises from the super
imposition of a new culture on an old one
It is culture shock in one’s society. But its impact is far worse.

16. NOTABLE IDEAS FUTURE SHOCK
A. SUPER-INDUSTRIALIZATION ERA
B. NOVELTY
C. TECHNOLOGIAL TIME
D. CHANGE AND KNOWLEDGE
E. ACCELERATE THRUST
F. TIME AND CHANGE
I. HOW TO SURVIVE
H. PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL
DIMENSION
I. CULTURE SHOCK
G. DIVERSITY

17. THE 21ST CENTURY
1. We are now in the 21st century
2. The beginning of modern technology. Things are change
 From old to new
 From slow to fast
 From difficult to an easier way
 Technology gives us way for the better future

18. The Third Wave

19. Technology Progresses Through Time
First Wave- Agricultural- 8000BC-1650-1750
Second Wave- Industrial- 1750-1950
Third Wave- Informational- 1950-2004
Four1th Wave- Nano/Biotechnology 2004-???

20. First Wave: Agricultural-8000BC-1650-1750
Characteristics
 Communication—Oral was common
 Family Structure- Extended family
 Economy—Hunting/fishing important for food
 Production- Solar energy, natural resources very
 important
 Education—Home schooling, individual
 Politics –Individual classified by politics

21. Second: Industry 1750-1950
Characteristics
 Family Structure – Nuclear Families
 Education – Rote and repetition teaching practices
 Economy – Trade with foreign countries
 Production – Factories, assembly lines
 Communication – newspapers, tvs
 Politics – wars, strikes, crisis, and political uprisings

22. Third Wave—Informational—1950-2004
 Economy-Global industry, supply of oil and gas
 Family—2 parents work, more single-parent homes and grandparents raising their
grandchildren
 Education- secondary schools offer distance and
 online courses, Internet, digital networks
 Politics- Variety of government s such as
 democracies, socialism, capitalism
 Communication—Twittering, texting from cell
 phones, computer phones, computers and laptops
 Production-Medical discoveries, cars with special
 features, science inventions,

23. Fourth Wave—2005--???
According to Dr. Thornburg and Dr. Dede there
will be a fourth wave. They have predicted that
this age will include biotechnology related
products that will be more durable and creative.

24. Powershift : knowledge, wealth, and violence at
the edge of the 21st century
In Powershift, Toffler argues that while headlines focus
on shifts of power at the global level, equally significant
shifts are taking place in the everyday world we all
inhabit—the world of supermarkets and hospitals,
banks and business offices, television and telephones,
politics and personal life. The very nature of power is
changing under our eyes.

25. Conclusion
Education can be seen on two sides, namely as practice and education as a
theory. Associated with efforts to study education as a theory can be done through
a philosophical approach, one of which is the flow of futurism. In its application to
the world of education and learning, that the flow of futurism requires learning is
a conscious effort of students to think and act today to face the future and the
ability needed to be able to face the turmoil of change is so fast. Learning is not a
dogmatic process. Learning must have a character centered on students. Futurism
aims to help prepare citizens in this case the younger generation to respond to
change and make smart choices considering that humanity moves into the future
that has more than one configuration. So that futurism philosophy aims to
develop a more pleasant future through education. .

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