TRENDS, NETWORKS AND

CRITICAL THINKING IN THE 21ST

CENTURY CULTURE
Prepared by: LESLIE MONICA M. REYES
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”.

Students will be asked to create and analyze scenarios that will

challenge them to
1. Formulate their stances or concerns
2. Propose interventions
3. Formulate alternative futures.
Students will realize interconnections between neural
connections and social realities.
QUARTER 1
•Definition of Trends
•Understanding Local Networks
•Global Networks
•Planetary Networks

QUARTER 2
•Democratic Interventions
•Information Communication Technology (ICT)
•Neural and Social Networks
 The21 stCentury Culture
One of the significant changes in
this period is the Internet. The
speed of internet significantly
affect the way people choose
and decide.
 The21 stCentury Culture
One of the significant changes in
this period is the Internet. The
speed of internet significantly
affect the way people choose
and decide.
 Coping with the demand of
the digital society, learners
need additional skills to react
to challenges of the 21 st

century.
ANCHORING
- staying focused on
important tasks while
undergoing a deluge of
distractions.
In the metacards provided by
the teacher, list down the
characteristics of 21 st

Century.
Processing Questions:
1. What have you noticed from
the given pictures and words?
2. What could be the meaning of
these changes, trends?
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“sissy”
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TREND
Is generally course of
prevailing tendency; drift; to
tend to take a particular
direction; be currently
popular.
TREND
•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.
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 short period of time.
TREND
According to Merriam-Webster,
a. it is a prevailing tendency or
inclination : DRIFT
b: a general movement : SWING
TREND
c: a current style or
preference : VOGUE
d: a line of
development : APPROACH
TREND
According to Trend Spotter, it
is a general direction in
which something is
developing or changing.
GROUP ACTIVITY
Develop a concept map.
Choose a group leader
who will present the
output .
 RUBRIC
CONTENT 10
TIME MANAGEMENT 5
COOPERATION & TEAMWORK 3
NEATNESS & ORDERLINESS 2
TOTAL SCORE 20
ASSESSMENT
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.
2. A trend happens when a large
group of people begin liking an
object, thing, hobby or a person in
a long period of time.
3. According to Wikipedia, trend is
a general direction in which
something is developing or
changing.
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.
ASSIGNMENT

Cut an article from a

newspaper showing
trend for the last five
years.