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Get a Life – future work life simulation tool for university students

Get a Life – future work life simulation tool for university students Finland Futures Research Centre Leena Jokinen, Johanna Ollila, Mikko Vähätalo FFRC Conference Trends and Future of Sustainable Development 9-10.6. 2011. Methods explored.

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Get a Life – future work life simulation tool for university students

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  1. Get a Life – future work life simulation tool for university students Finland FuturesResearch Centre Leena Jokinen, Johanna Ollila, Mikko Vähätalo FFRC Conference Trends and Future of SustainableDevelopment 9-10.6. 2011

  2. Methods explored • Long-term future scenarios on the development and changes in working life • An online simulation tool for students in the career-visioning process • Pedagogical model and a virtual handbook for career counselors • Combining these methods in a novel way in creating a future work life simulation

  3. Scenario building process • Futures table • Expert group produced variables • Key variables including: core competences, status, organization, hierarchies, tradition and culture of work, societal, economic , technological and environmental drivers • Project team formed 5 different scenarios • Partner organizations (public and private employers) were involved and contributed to the scenario building process • Many partner and stakeholder groups have contributed to the producing of futures images e.g. science fiction writers, teachers, students, employment professionals… • Future news headlines based on each scenario

  4. Get a Life! simulation • Time frame: 2010-2030, location: Finland, users: tertiary level students • Includes >900 simulated situations from the working world of the future • Each situation entails several plausible choices • Choices lead to consequences so diverse that sometimes even a proactive mind cannot anticipate • Initiates contemplation of one’s capabilities, life and the various scenarios of the future work life • Unlike the real life, the simulation provides the user with an opportunity to go back and choose differently and thus explore various future paths

  5. Simulation as a futurestool • Simulationsareaboutfuture • Qualitativemodelling • Explorative • Safetestingenvironment of opportunities and decisions • Reflection and contemplation • One-timeexperienceormultipleuses • Possible to undo, redo • Individual and groupprocesses • Possible to modify to otheruses: public and corporatedecision-making, environmentalscanning, scenariobuilding and testing etc.

  6. Learning in simulations • Learning to: • Know (new information, cognitive processes), which is intertwined with learning to: • Do (decision-making, choices based on cognitive processes) that results in learning to: • Be(in a new, unprecedented situation) • Simulation produces new situations of which the user hasn't any previous experience • The user combines existing information and seeks likenesses using also others' experiences (friends, parents) and other information as reference and acts (=chooses) based on the combined knowledge.

  7. Holistic and future-oriented approach to counseling • Planning one’s own life and transition to the working world • Supports the student’s self-efficacy and the individual’s vocational development in different stages of studies • Exploratory rather than normative model of decision-making • Emphasis on alternative futures, happenstance, uncertainty, context • Promoting critical reflection • Futures consciousness , independent thinking, reflection on one’s capabilities

  8. Get a Life -project HAAGA-HELIA team Future Scenarios Work and career path Education path Life path Goals: Meaningful career path Self-efficacy and personal choises Quality of life plan I learn I plan Counselingmentoring coaching I develop I reflect I challenge The dynamic and holisticmodel for counseling

  9. Contributions & further development of the tool • Long-term future orientation contributes significantly to student career counseling theory and practices • The career decision-making discourse is contributed by combining the facilitation of complex decision-making with stochastic perspectives • Future work life simulation tool is a unique innovation and combines the contributions of various scientific frameworks • Both the technical features and the contents of the simulation will be developed and further refined in a following project • Changing perspective from national to international • Introducing localization possibilities (content-checking, terminology, language)

  10. Thankyou! Moreinformation: http://getalifehanke.wordpress.com/in-english/ Get a Life! simulation demo in English: http://getalife.hamk.fi

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