Understanding Elements and Characteristics of a Trend

WHAT IS A TREND?
A pattern of gradual change in a condition, output, or process, or an average or
general tendency of a series of data points to move in a certain direction over time,
represented by a line or curve on a graph.

MEGATRENDS AND MICROTRENDS

Megatrends entail a major restructing ; they are a larger pattern of broad trends that
reshape and transform our lives.
Microtrends advocate localization as opposed to globalization, recognizing that people
and communities have never been sophisticated and more knowledgeable about the
choices they make in their everyday lives.

EXAMPLES OF TRENDS:
 Facebook – is the most common social network website where you can share
information about yourself and communicate with other people.
 Twitter – it lets you see what is happening around the world, from breaking news
and entertainment, sports and politics to big events and every day interests.
Trendspotting

Trendspotting is attempting to see the future in the present (Rehn and Lindkvist, 2013).
Being able to predict a trend is a valued skill for the global citizen. Trendspotting is sometimes
called cool-hunting and trend analysis.
Trend analysis is the widespread practice of collecting information and attempting to spot a
pattern, or trend, in the information.

Trend spotting is the identification of new trends or attempting to see the future.

Trend spotter is a person who notices and reports on new fashions, ideas, or activities that
are becoming popular.

Differentiating a trend from a fad

Both trends and fads can play an important role in an organization’s success – but they
must be treated differently. If they are not, leaders risk burning out adapting to every fad, and
critical trends required for an organizations’ survival may be missed. Let’s start by looking into
fads and trends individually.

Fad is a new thing that people are doing. The easiest way to categorize a fad is one word:
short-lived. Trends have a much longer lifespan than fads. In fact, trends can continue to be
fashionable for years and even decades.
 Trend is significant, have broad implications in all aspects of society, identifiable and
explainable while fad is transitory or quick, affect only particular group of people without impact
and driven by emotions.

K to 12 BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL – ACADEMIC

TRACK

Subject 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
features.

Unit I: Understanding Elements and Characteristics of Trends

A trend is a behavior or new way of doing things and it has a big impact on our society.
It is a sequential pattern of change in a condition, output, or process, or an average or
general tendency of a series of data points to move in a certain direction over time,
represented by a line or curve on a graph.

The process of identifying a trend

Trend analysis is the widespread practice of collecting information and attempting to
spot a pattern, or trend, in the information.
Trend spotting is the identification of new trends or attempting to see the future.
Trend spotter is a person who notices and reports on new fashions, ideas, or activities
that are becoming popular.
Difference between Fad and Trends
Trends have a much longer lifespan than fads.In fact, they can continue to be fashionable for years and
even decades. The primary difference between a trend and a fad is that trends have the potential to be
long-term influences on the market.

Unit II: Understanding Local Networks

This introduces us to the idea and importance of a network for us human beings. A
gathering of individuals we interface consistently family, companions, neigbors,
intructors and managers. Network is a group of people whom we interact daily.
Networks are analyzed in terms of: (Kilduff and Tsal, 2003, pp.30ff)

1. Density
2. Hierarchy
3. Complexity
4. Interdependence
5. Embeddedness
Unit III: Global Netwoks: Labor and Migration
What is migration and globalization?
Globalization- is the most powerful force for change in the world today affecting all
societies in the planet.
Migration- movement of people from one terittory to another for the purpose of taking
up either a permanent or temporary residence.
People migrate for various reasons. The reasons may fall under four categories:

1. environmental
2. political
3. cultural
4. economic
Types of Migration
  Internal Migration – this is defined as the process where migrants look for a new
residence within their own country, state, or continent.
 External Migration – moving in a different country, state or continent to a new
residence
 Migration – leaving one country to move to another
 Immigration – moving into a new country
 Forced Migration – this happens when the state or authorities forced its people to
migrate for a reason
Unit IV: Planetary Networks: Climate Change
Change is inevitable. The era of globalization certainly contributed in changing the
landscape of the world and its inhabitants. Amid this growth and advancement in
technology, the environment seems to bear and suffer the consequences. Every day,
we are confronted with issues and problems related to the environment. The issue on
climate change is one concrete manifestation and realization that the age of
globalization and the rapid industrial and technological advancement has taken its toll
on the naturalenvironment.
Climate Change- also called global warming, refers to the rise in average surface
temperatures on Earth.
Greenhouse Effect- the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere
due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than
to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
Solutions:
What to do:
 Reduce energy consumption
 Travel Green
 Watch your Water Use
 Reduce Waste
 Plant a Tree

Unit V: Democratic Interventions

Government intervention
- refers to the ways in which a government regulates or interferes with the various
activities or decisions made by individuals or organizations within its jurisdiction. The
effects of this can be positive or negative.
Democracy is one of the most important principles for a better world. In its truest sense,
a democracy is a community in which all members have an equal say in the running of
that community. Unfortunately in reality, democratic societies have fallen short of this
ideal.
Democratic Participation
is the empowerment of people to effectively involve themselves in creating
structures,designing polices and programs that serves that interest of all. it requires
association with other people.
MAIN TYPES OF DEMOCRACY
Constitutional- concentrates on laws enacted by a regime concerning political activity
Substantive- stress on the quality of life that a regime tries to promote which include
individual freedom,human welfare,security, social quality and good governance.
Procedural- a thin scope of administrative practices to figure out if an administration
qualifies as democratic mainly focusing on how it conducts its election
Process oriented- differ significantly from constitutional,substativeand procedural
accounts.
Unit VI: Information Communication Technology (ICT)
ICT - is an extended term for information technology (IT) which stresses the role of
unified communications and the integration of telecommunications. The
phrase information and communications technology has been used by academic
researchers since the 1980s, and the abbreviation ICT became popular after it was
used in a report to the UK government by Dennis Stevenson in 1997.
Benefits of ICT to:

1. Economic
2. Political
3. Social
4. Cultural
5. Personal
 Researcher make it clear that ICT advances social improvement by sharing
learning,encouraging social innovativeness,expanding popularity based support and
upgrading social cohesion. W are challenged to harness the potential of information
and communication technology to promote the attainment of a more peaceful,just
and prosperous world.
Unit VII: Neural and Social Networks
Neural is a computer system modeled on the human brain and nervous system.
While Social networking is the practice of expanding the number of one's business
and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals, often through social
media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Google+.
Neural networks (also referred to as connectionist systems) are a computational
approach, which is based on a large collection of neural units (AKA artificial neurons),
loosely modeling the way a biological brain solves problems with large clusters of
biological neurons connected by axons.

APPLICATION:
Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century-
helps us to be updated in everything. it may serve for us to be knowledeable, especially
now a days in our generation, we are in modern period. we should know the trends, be
updated through networking and use your critical thinking to use this things worthy and
useful. it may help us easily to discover what is happening in our world and be one of
the saviour and protector of our beautiful world.