Program Description
Future Quest Island-Explorations (FQI-E) is an online accessible college & career awareness curriculum that uses gaming strategies to motivate and support improved self-concept and early career awareness for upper elementary students with and without disability in grades 3-5 using the evidenced-based “Possible Selves” framework and features standards-based lesson plans (aligned with ELA, ISTE, and ASCA).
Game-Based Experience using the Evidenced-Based Possible Selves Framework
Once students log in to FQI-E, they are greeted by their online mentor, Captain Blue Beard, who helps them navigate their 'Possible Selves' journey. Next, they customize their avatar and hop aboard a hovercraft where they progress through a series of lessons on 21 islands, focusing on various aspects of their Possible Selves. The Possible Selves framework addresses individuals’ perceived future self-concept and guides students in thinking about the future with an emphasis on nurturing academic and personal motivation. It includes components of self-concept that have to do with ‘what I can be, what I would like to be, and what I am afraid of becoming’ (Ruvolo & Markus, 1992). By the end of the game, students create a visual representation in the form of a Possible Selves Tree that highlights personalized badges describing their hopes, preferences, goals, fears, and things that help them grow into a person, friend, learner, and worker.
Universally Designed and Accessible
Additionally, using the principles of universal design for learning, FQI-E is designed so that all students can create electronic portfolios and artifacts of their hopes, dreams, goals, fears, and growth as a person, learner, worker, and friend. These e-portfolios/artifacts can assist IEP teams in developing better secondary and postsecondary goals and outcomes for students.
*If you are a student trying to login to Future Quest Island - Explorations, please visit www.fqie.me.
