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, literacies and tools to survive and thrive in the 21st century.

The world is experiencing a vast shift. New technologies are transforming both the analog and digital worlds, impacting all vocations and occupations…all ecosystems, industry and economies. This revolution challenges society’s fundamental ideas about what it means to balance life, work and play.

The youth of the Gen ‘Zzzs who are coming of age in the 21st century need to learn very different skills than those taught to students in the 20th century. Yet for the most part, these skills aren’t taught in traditional educational environments. There is a growing disconnect between existing education systems and emerging job markets. Many of today’s youth will work in new job types that do not yet exist. Youth today are unequipped to navigate these shifting paradigm, and are caught between the old and the new, left to fend for themselves in the digital, urban and social wildernesses of the 21st century.

We refer to skills that equip youth to face uncertainty and unknowns as ‘21st Century Survival Skills.’

The term refers to a broad set of literacies, competencies and character traits that are considered to be critically important in today’s quickly changing world, and more importantly — in the worlds of tomorrow.

At Future Scouts, we empower learners of all ages to learn and develop mastery of 21st Century Survival Skills through a hands-on, interdisciplinary approach that brings creativity and curiosity to the learning process.

By some predictions, one in three of today’s students is predicted to find themselves doing jobs that don’t yet exist. Already in the US, there are millions of jobs going unfilled because employers can’t find workers who are qualified. Meanwhile traditional Scouting organizations’ membership has been plummeting (more on that in another post). How can educators and adult mentors effectively prepare youth for these emerging opportunities?

We live in a complex, connected, evolving world that demands new skills, and we must help the future generation learn to think, communicate and solve problems in novel, unimagined ways.

It is not enough to teach these skills at different times or in separate settings, nor to teach them at all — what it takes is recognizing that learning is a lifelong process.

We must empower learners…not teach to the test (or the algorithms). We must help students cultivate critical thinking, creativity, computational literacy, ingenuity and flexibility. We must help them function comfortably in constantly evolving environments and be prepared to thrive and prosper in the 21st century.

Future Scouts is a next-generation youth service organization leading internationally in preparing learners with the skills, literacies and tools to succeed in all of the challenges of the 21st century. We do this by providing technology, services, and curriculum that integrate 21st century skills, systems thinking, sensemaking, collaboration and more into a holistic learning experience for learners of all ages.

Through our online and offline activities, after school, camp, workshops, home school programs, and special events, we have provided enriching, unique learning opportunities for youth in grades K-12 and beyond.

Soon we will be inviting thousands of students actively to engage each week via the Future Scouts App and Handbook. We’re building a thriving, involved community of learners, mentors, parents, and professionals that are actively co-creating and world building the Future Scouts.

Our ultimate goal is for Future Scouts to be a leading international movement for 21st Century, self-directed, lifelong learners.

We aim to transform traditional learning environments and bridge the learning gap for learners of all ages. We want to help those in need of opportunities and additional support to prepare them for success in all pursuits in their life, work and play.

We envision Future Scouts will lead communities in helping learners of all ages to learn and develop the knowledge and skills required to create their preferred futures.

If you believe, as we do, that learning is about opening doors to new ideas and experiences, get in touch. We’d love your help in building a truly collaborative, self-directed learning future for scouting.

We invite you to get involved and RSVP to one of our orientation events.

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