Future Quest Island
Promoting College & Career Readiness for Students with and without Disabilities
About Future Quest Island:Future Quest Island (FQI) is an accessible game-based college and career readiness tool that aligns 21st century technology skills with college and career readiness goals to promote self-awareness, self-knowledge, self-advocacy, and organization for middle school youth with and without disabilities.
FQI is aimed at middle school general and special education teachers as well as technology professionals, counselors, administrators, and transition professionals who are interested in advancing engagement and transition plans of youth with and without disabilities in middle school in college and career activities. |
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Project Outcomes:
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Key Topic Areas:
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The island uses the principles of universal design for learning and motivation strategies to engage all users in developing a portfolio for individualized learning plans and transition plans for IEPs.
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Student Activities:Students choose an avatar and set sail to one of the island locations (About Me Mountain, College Coast, Career Cove, & Social Sanctuary) to complete activities, build their portfolios, and earn coins to build their huts.
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Student Feedback:First I wanted to go to community college, but now I want to be a lawyer or something. I wanted to go to a regular high school but now I want to go to one that will help me become a lawyer.” I talked to my mom more and more about it. I’ve been doing a lot more research about being a doctor or a nurse and I talked to my mom about what colleges I have to go to." I am just focused on sport so I just want to go to NBA. But I have a second choice. So, FQI has taught me more about my second choice. Being a teacher, at gym. I want to be a phys-ed teacher. well my teacher told me about it earlier, but it (FQI) helped me to understand more about what kind of degree you have to get and stuff like that.” I started opening up to more colleges and how to take in new skills like recording and photography and learning about cameras and editing.” |
Teaching Toolkit:Teachers are empowered with access to an easy-to-use student management system that includes a toolkit of teaching units & activities aligned with ELA standards, ISTE technology standards, Massachusetts Career Development Education standards and college and career readiness standards.
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The work in it is aligned with the Department of Ed, as a counselor it makes me feel confident working with the program and knowing we’re giving the students the best opportunities that we can.”
"Teacher toolkit materials provide enough detail to jump right in."
The Teacher Toolkit was helpful in understanding the goals of activities on FQI.”
He’s mentioned a lot about colleges to me which I thought was funny |
He talks about different career options with his class and his academic |