The course on trends, networks, and critical thinking equips students with skills to analyze global trends, differentiate between trends and fads, and understand the implications of these phenomena on social realities. Students engage in scenario creation to formulate stances, propose interventions, and envision alternative futures. Key objectives include defining trends, spotting them, and exploring their characteristics across various fields such as art, economics, and politics.

1. Trends, Networks
and Critical
Thinking
in the 21st Century

2. Course Description
The course provides opportunities for students to discover patterns and extract
meanings from emerging trends. It aids in developing their critical and creative thinking
skills-- essential tools for decision making and understanding “ethics of care”. Global
trends in the 21st century are examined and are either accepted or rejected on a sound
set of criteria. Students will be asked to create and analyze scenarios that will challenge
them to;
(1) formulate their stances on issues or concerns;
(2) propose interventions and;
(3) formulate alternative futures.
The students will realize the interconnections between their neural connections and
social realities.
Trends, Networks and Critical Thinking in the
21st Century Culture

4. Trend vs. Fad

5. Objectives
At the end of the lesson we can;
1. Define trend and differentiate it
from a fad.
2. Explain the process on how to spot a
trend.
3. Enumerate the different elements
and characteristics of a trend.
4. Illustrate, create a trend or fad
ideas.

6. Guide Questions
1. What is a trend?
2. What is the difference
between trend and fad?
3. How to spot a trend?
4. What are the elements and
characteristics of a trend?

7. - It refers to observable changes in the pattern of behavior in a certain amount of time. It can influence facets of your
living both in your present and in your future.
The definition of a a pattern of behaviour
demonstrated by a big number of people
within a particular period.

12.  Field of Arts – fashion and music, a prevailing style or
preference such as realism movement in art,
emergence of the miniskirt and popularity of jazz
music.
 Economics – a general movement registering
statistical changes for a long period such as the
increasing cost of living and rate of unemployment.
 Politics – a tendency, drift or bend toward a certain
stance, thought or policy as when democratic
Southeast Asian countries favoured authoritarian
governments at a certain point in their histories.
 For Sociologist – it is a collective behavior or mass
involvement that is acceptable to society and shows a
“line of historical continuity” as it can be downplayed
today but can resurface sometime in the future.

13.  A pattern of gradual change
in a condition, output, or
process.
 An intense and widely shared
enthusiasm for something.
 Last an average of ten
years or more!
 Make your money and Run!