Trends, Networks, & Critical

Thinking in the 21st Century

IDENTIFYING PARTS OF A
WHOLE
AND EMERGING
PATTERNS IN TRENDS

Lesson 5
Learning
Objectives
1. identify parts of a whole
(HUMSS_MCT12-Ia-b-6);
2. identify and explain an emerging
pattern (HUMSS_MCT12-Ia-b-7); and
3. identify causes and consequences
(HUMSS_MCT12-Ia-b-8).
 The following are statements about TREND. Write
Pre-Test TRUE if the sentence is correct, write FALSE
otherwise.

1. Trends are formed from the combination of things.

2. Music videos, image-sharing mobile apps, and emojis are some of the
more physical manifestations of people captivated by the visual
culture.
3. A larger thing (the whole) does not consist of smaller things or parts.
4. Megatrend includes urbanization, automation and changing
demographics.
5. Microtrend shows the tendency in the direction of some phenomenon
that is fairly pervasive within a given sphere of influence and lasts for
only a few years and is common to business management.
 The following are statements about TREND. Write
Pre-Test TRUE if the sentence is correct, write FALSE
otherwise.

6. Macrotrends can endure for surprisingly a long time and affect most of
society.
7. Notebook and pen are basic in the documentation.
8. Interviews and friendly-group discussions (FGD) are ways to catch
emerging patterns.
9. Identifying emerging patterns can be used to introduce individuals,
organizations, and communities to change, improvement,
transformation, and new opportunities.
10. Documentation is the stage where examination and combination
happen.
 The following are statements about TREND. Write
Pre-Test TRUE if the sentence is correct, write FALSE
otherwise.
11. The important thing in documentation is the ability to physically keep
information and data wherever and whenever you may be.
12. New trends are labeled with new names or terms in the hope of popularizing a
phenomenon.
13. The tools that a trend spotter should find handy to use are categorized into
four
activities such as documentation, archive or memory, analysis and
representation.
14. Tagging and cross-indexing are helpful in labeling files.
15. Once patterns are identified, trends are given irrational explanations for their
emergence or existence and are provided with a better understanding of their
cultural origins.
What comes to your
mind when you hear
Emerging trends?
Activity 1. Explain the
following key terms and ideas
using your own words.
1. mobile age
____________________________________________
____________________________
2. crisis in water and food
____________________________________________
____________________________
3. technology race
____________________________________________
____________________________
4. competing BRIC and beyond (BRIC is a group acronym for
Brazil, Russia, India and China)
____________________________________________
____________________________
5. influence of me and we
____________________________________________
____________________________
Activity 1. Explain the
following key terms and ideas
using your own words.
6. rise of new power brokers
____________________________________________
____________________________
7. interdependence and competition across industries
____________________________________________
____________________________
8. own the new consumers
____________________________________________
____________________________
9. generation gap
____________________________________________
____________________________
10. tension of globalization and destruction
____________________________________________
____________________________
 Trends, Networks, & Critical
Thinking in the 21st Century

IDENTIFYING PARTS OF A
WHOLE
AND EMERGING
PATTERNS IN TRENDS

Lesson 5
IDENTIFYING PARTS OF
A WHOLE
Trends as they grow and evolve tend
to influence or give birth to other
trend and become interconnected
and interrelated. Thus, a trend has
constituent parts of portions that are
interrelated. Their influence, as well
as how the people adopt them,
makes the trend viable, especially
the megatrends and gigatrends.
VISUAL
C U L T U R E
PATTERN
Urgel (2017) defined a pattern as a
design, shape, form or configuration that
emerges from repetitious appearance of
lines, curves, and behavior. According to
him, in the study of trends, repetitive
behavior that gives rise to an emerging
pattern is the main interest.

In order to follow and observe if a pattern

emerges out of various events and
phenomena, one should have the tools
necessary to detect it.
 4 Tools for a 1. Documentation
means being able to record
Trend Spotter your observations that you
consider related to any trend.

2. Archive or Memory
is used to easily retrieve any
documentation you have
kept.

4. Presentation
is representing your findings
for easy understanding as a
way of analysis.
3. Analysis
is the stage where examination
and combination happen. Looking
for patterns on prospective trends
can be achieved through these
methods:
brainstorming, grouping, and
crafting combinations.
Activity 2 Answer the following questions:

1. What do you think are the parts that gave way to selfie phenomenon?
Explain each part briefly.
2. Why is it useful to identify emerging patterns in looking for a trend? Cite
two examples and explain your answer concisely.
3. How will you face the new challenges brought about by global and
emerging trends in the 21st century? Please support your answer.
Performance task 3
To further establish your understanding in identifying parts of a whole and emerging patterns in
trends, do any one of the activities listed below which you prefer most.

A. You are an environmentalist. You were doing research about the

environmental issues and trends in your area. Your friend, a local
news magazine editor, offered you a chance to publish your findings through
a feature article. You have to submit a draft of your article to your editor
friend, who allotted three pages of the magazine for your feature. You must
include in your article emerging environment-related patterns that you have
observed and a projected scenario based on each trend you have identified.
.
Performance task 3
To further establish your understanding in identifying parts of a whole and emerging patterns in
trends, do any one of the activities listed below which you prefer most.

B. You are a history teacher, and you have been invited to join a one-day
outreach program for grade 6 pupils. You are tasked to give a lecture on the
historical trends of colonialism and neocolonialism in Southeast Asia. You
are tasked to prepare either a slideshow or a one-page summary handout of
your lecture. Your work should describe or demonstrate colonialism through
its characteristics, elements, and consequences, especially in the former
colonies. You should also illustrate neocolonialism as it is observed today.
The usage of graphics and images for the slideshow presentation is
recommended. You will submit your output for evaluation.
Activity 3
Dr. Lorenzo is a Sociologist who is invited to deliver a short
message about the emerging patterns of trends to the Senior
High School HUMSS students of Luakan National High School.
He asked you to be his lecture assistant for the talk. On your
way to the event, Dr. Lorenzo informed you that he forgot to
bring his notes. While he was delivering his lecture, he asked
you to give him cues for the sequence of the topics. Help
Doctor Lorenzo by filling in the missing words to complete his
lecture.
Good morning HUMSS students, teachers, and visitors, as the great (1) ___________ once
said, “the whole is not equal to the sum of the part,” we are all but part of an enormous
whole. However, even if we cannot comprehensively understand the whole as a whole,
we can still somehow have a grasp of it through its parts. Just like the human sciences
where someday you will all venture into your college – Psychology ventures into
understanding human behavior and mental process, Sociology studies the human person
and how he relates to others in his society, and Political science looks at us, humans as
persons who are capable of transforming societies into something bigger and better
through leadership and sustenance in upholding the greater good.
All these are already considered as (2) _____________ since they have
already been part of our existence which is unlike (3) _____________
which are only short-lived and don’t really last unless their impact
becomes larger and more extensive like a dot that eventually
becomes a line and tends to be so influential.
You are HUMSS students, and with that I am confident that one day, those
simple (4) ___________ you do whenever you start a project based on your unique
ideas and concepts will someday become an (5) ____________ which will be looked into
and searched by your constituents, who knows, 10 years or 20 years from now, and
that simple things you started will eventually become a gigatrend in decades to come.
See what happened to Facebook? It was just a simple programming project back in
2004, but look at it now? I would guess that more than 90 percent of you, if not all,
do have Facebook accounts.
When you start to look back at how it all began, you would realize the
significance of that (6) ____________ in all forms as long they are recorded.
One should just need to carefully see the (7) _____________ by looking at
the repetitious appearances and linkages that these trends developed
and evolved into.
And guess what, what I am actually delivering to you right now at this
very moment is very necessary. A good trendspotter requires the talent
of (8) ____________ which is needed to come up with a holistic perspective
in spotting the emergence of trends. Finally, (9) ____________ should also
be done which, of course, is an important means to capture your
intuition and stimulate creative discussions about trends which can be
done using slide decks, diagrams, flow charts or other
(10)____________means.
Assessment. A. Directions: Supply the missing
letters to complete each word.
Assessment. A. Directions: Supply the missing
letters to complete each word.