This document provides an overview of a course on trends, networks, and critical thinking in the 21st century. The course aims to help students discover patterns and extract meaning from emerging trends in order to develop critical and creative thinking skills. It covers topics like defining trends, understanding local and global networks, planetary networks related to climate change, information and communication technology, and neural and social networks. The document includes sample content from Week 1 which focuses on defining trends versus fads and providing guidelines for how to spot trends. It describes trends as ideas or innovations that gain consistent acceptance over the long term and have impact, while fads are short-lived novelties.

1. Trends, Networks &
Critical Thinking in
the 21st Century
Culture
MRS. LESLIE MONICA M. REYES

2. Overview of the Course
The course provides opportunities for
students to discover patterns and extract
meaning from emerging trends. It aids
developing their critical and creative
thinking skills --- essential tools for
decision making and understanding
“ETHICS and CARE”.

3. Content of the Course
• Definition of a Trend
• Understanding Local Networks
• Global Networks
• Planetary Networks: Climate Change
• Democratic Interventions
• Information and Communication Technology
• Neural and Social Networks

4. QUARTER 3
Definition of a
Trend
Understanding
Local Networks
Global
Networks
Planetary Networks:
Climate Change
1
3 4
2

5. Week
1
Session 1
DEFINITION OF TREND

6. Content Standard
The learner understands
the emergence of trends
and patterns.

7. Performance Standard
The learner will be able to
derive an idea from instances
and present this idea through a
100-word essay, artwork and
other graphic representations.

8. Most Essential Learning
Competencies
1. Differentiate a trend from a fad.
2. Explain the process on how to
spot a trend.

9. Motivation: 2Ps-PICK AND POST
Pick a word from the box and classify it
according to your own understanding
of trends and fads.

10. FACEBOOK
TROLL DOLLS
ONLINE BANKING

11. E-MAIL
CARROT/
CABBAGE MAN

12. LAPTOP
MILK TEA
CHIA SEEDS

13. ONLINE SELLING
BABY SHARK SONG &
DANCE

15. • “besh”
• “sissy”
• “charot”

16. Processing Questions
1. What have you noticed from the
given pictures and words?
2. What could be the meaning of
these changes, trends?

17. TREND
• Is generally course of prevailing
tendency; drift; to tend to take a particular
direction; be currently popular.
• Is a look that has the appeal of newness
• It is basically a pattern or a
conceptualized idea which provides a
continuing influence for a long period of time.

18. TREND
• According to Wikipedia, it is a type of
behavior that develops in a large
population. A trend happens when a large
group of people begin liking an object,
thing, hobby or a person in a long period of
time.

19. TREND
According to Merriam-Webster,
a. it is a prevailing tendency or inclination:
DRIFT
b: a general movement : SWING
c: a current style or preference : VOGUE
d: a line of development : APPROACH

20. TREND
is generally a direction which tells that
something is developing or changing. The
common word one may hear especially in social
media is the word “trending”. In businesses, it
usually indicates an upward direction in sales or
in profit while in social media, it connotes
something that is becoming popular or
acceptable to the general population.

21. FAD
is any form of behavior that is
intensely followed by a population for
a short period of time. The behavior
will rise relatively quickly and fall
relatively quickly once the perception
of novelty is gone.

22. FAD
It is an intense but short-lived
fashion/event. It is a temporary
fashion, a craze, interest or activity
that people follow enthusiastically,
but lasts for a short period of time.

23. FAD
Uso, on the other hand, is an intense and
enthusiasm for something widely shared by
people of common interest that could also be
short-lived. one that is short-lived. It may also
be considered a craze or kinahuhumalingan in
Filipino language. It is a collective behavior
which is often sudden too quick to spread but
most of the time short-lived.

24. FAD
may include foods, clothing,
hairstyles, habits, toys and hobbies
or past times.

25. ACTIVITY
Classify the following words as a
Trend or Fad. Answers will be
written on the activity sheet
provided.

26. • FACEBOOK
• TROLL DOLLS
• ONLINE BANKING
• ONLINE SELLING
• CARROT/CABBAGE MAN
• BABY SHARK SONG AND DANCE
• CHIA SEEDS
• E-MAIL
• MILK TEA
• LAPTOP

27. TRENDS FADS
FACEBOOK TROLL DOLLS
ONLINE BANKING CARROT/CABBAGE
MAN
ONLINE SELLING CHIA SEEDS
E-MAIL MILK TEA
LAPTOP BABY SHARK SONG
AND DANCE

28. How to spot a
trend?

29. Guidelines on how to spot a trend
1. Identify the opportunity
When one sees something new, or an idea arising,
opportunities must be considered ahead. Questions to
be consider are:
What opportunities can I take with the new idea?
How can this idea bring a good opportunity for many
people?

30. Guidelines on how to spot a trend
2. Reflect on your own
What do you have at the moment?
Look outside your business and see what they are
doing. They may be using things that you do not use
yet and find them useful. When they adapt the trend,
would you do it the same way they would do things or
find your own means of doing it? Could you be of the
same level or would you think ahead and be a leader
of the trend?

31. Guidelines on how to spot a trend
3. Be well informed.
Follow social media, blogs and website. They
may provide you information on what the hot
issues are, the talk of the town, the latest
craze and what makes the people react
more.

32. Guidelines on how to spot a trend
4. Explore the social media.
Find your friends, relatives, business partners
and even competitors. Find what they follow,
what they like and what interests them. Use
social media to see what gets viral, the fads,
and find out how you could get in the
situation and be part of the trend.

33. Guidelines on how to spot a trend
5. Be careful with the information
Not all information gives you the truth. Others
are deceiving; some are misleading. Trust a
second opinion. It will help. Consult an expert
and find reliable information.

34. REVIEW QUIZ: DIFFERENTIATION
• Long period of time
• Short period of time
• Relatively quickly fall and rise
• Gradual
• Serves as solution to a problem
• Serves as novelty/ provides happiness

35. EVALUATION

36. Evaluation
Direction: TRUE or FALSE. Write T if the
statement is True and F if it is False.
1. Trend is basically a pattern or a
conceptualized idea which provides a
continuing influence for a long period
of time. T

37. Evaluation
2. A trend happens when a large group of
people begin liking an object, thing, hobby
or a person in a short period of time.
3. According to Wikipedia, trend is a
general direction in which something is
developing or changing.
F
F

38. Evaluation
4. The main objective of trend is for the
betterment of life and not to make our life
messy one.
5. It is fine to follow the trend even though
you violate the rule in some particular
occasion.
T
F

39. TRENDS FADS
WATCHING TELEVISON BELTS THAT MELTS
FATS
TELEVISION SHOPPING SLIMMING PILLS
SURFING THE
INTERNET
ABS CRUNCHERS
PROPER DIET
REGULAR EXERCISE

40. Week
1
Session 2
DEFINITION OF TREND

41. Most Essential Learning
Competencies
1. Point out the elements that make up
a trend.
2. Describe the different characteristics
of a trend.

42. Review Quiz: Differentiation
DIRECTION: Differentiate a Trend
from a Fad base on the following
categories:

43. Category of
Differentiation
TREND FAD
Life Span
Mode of
Existence
Purpose/
Benefits

44. • Short period of time
• Long period of time
• Gradual
• Relatively quickly fall and rise
• Serves as solution to a problem
• Serves as novelty/ it provides
happiness

46. Picture Analysis

47. Processing Questions
1. Are you familiar with this website?
2. What do you think are the details that can be
found in this site?
3. How does the site serve its
viewers/customers?
4. How can this website be helpful to students,
researchers, business companies and
consumers?

48. What brings a
TREND?

49. CHARACTERISTICS AND
ELEMENTS OF TREND
A. Idea or Innovation.
Ideas may be too many out there but
people these days always look for something
new---that is innovation. These may refer, for
example, to old problems adopting new
solutions or new problems having old solution---
still an innovation.

50. B. Consistency
When these ideas are introduced,
acceptability is consistently increasing
among people. They find it applicable as
solution or answer to their situation. It does
not immediately fade but rather develops a
growing interest among people and stay as
part of culture for a longer time possible.

51. C. Impact
It brings change and develops people
and systems. It has a lasting effect on
organizations and business systems and is
becoming more widely acceptable to
majority of people expecting to benefit from
it.

52. TREND CAN ALSO BE
CHARACTERIZED AS:
1. EASY
Trends do not require many
adjustments on the part of
subscribers, In fact, trends are
smooth and straightforward to follow.

53. TREND CAN ALSO BE
CHARACTERIZED AS:
2. CONSISTENT
Trends generate uniform and tangible
results. Unlike fads which claim to
deliver results in he often-unrealistic
timeframe, trends are steady and
dependable.

54. TREND CAN ALSO BE
CHARACTERIZED AS:
3. SUSTAINABLE
Trends exist and can be maintained for
a long time. Unlike fads which are brief
and fleeting, trends are for the long-
term.

55. TREND CAN ALSO BE
CHARACTERIZED AS:
4. BROAD APPLICATION
Trends are consumed by a large group of
people from different sectors of society and various
walks of life. Unlike fads which are contained in
one segment of the society, trends almost have a
general acceptance among people.

56. ACTIVITY
DIRECTION: Identify if the statements
in the first column are trends or fads. In the
prediction column, write the element or
characteristic that makes it a trend and state
the reason if you think it is a fad.

57. Evaluation
Direction: Identify what
characteristics of a trend are
explained in the following statement.
Choose your answer from the box.

58. Evaluation
1. Trends exist and can be maintained for a
long time. Unlike fads which are brief and
fleeting, trends are for the long-term.
SUSTAINABLE

59. Evaluation
2. Trends do not require many adjustments
on the part of subscribers. In fact, trends are
smooth and straightforward to follow.
EASY

60. Evaluation
3. Trends generate uniform and tangible
results.
CONSISTENT
4. Trend brings change and develops
people and systems.
IMPACT

61. Evaluation
5. Reasonable and acceptable ideas may
provide useful knowledge and may bring
new ideas when combined with another
lead to excellent innovative ideas.
IDEA/ INNOVATION