Trends, Networks, and

Critical Thinking in the 21st

Century
• Trend
• Globalization
• Climate Change
• Democratic Interventions
• Information Communication
Technology (ICT)
• Neural and Social Networks
Name

Thing
Countries in Asia
Complete Title of
Subjects in Senior
High School
Abbreviations Related
to ICT
Environmental
Problems We Are
Facing Today
DARE
Dance to the tune
of any Blackpink
song
DARE
Do the “Dalagang
Pilipina”pose
DARE

Sing a
Christmas Song
for your not so
close classmate
 Globally
networked

The 21st

Century World
Overwhelming
with varied
changes and
development
 Utilizing Use various
emerging technology to
address
ways of predicaments
doings things

Analyzes
issues and
Come up with problems
sound and
wise
decisions
 9/11 attack (2001)

Image Source: https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/911-attacks-a-passport-is-not-a-nation-1.66475182

 Steve Jobs introduces 1st iPod
(2001)

Image Source: https://www.cultofmac.com/194822/steve-jobs-vowed-to-patent-everything-apple-invented-after-being-stung-by-100m-ipod-fine-report/

 Brazil wins 2002 FIFA world cup

Image Source: https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/koreajapan2002/index.html

 Human Genome Project
(2003)

Image Source: http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2019/lessons-from-the-human-genome-project/

 Founding of Facebook
(2004)

Image Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/16/how-mark-zuckerberg-described-the-facebook-in-his-first-tv-interview.html

 Boxing Day/ Indian Ocean Tsunami (2004)

Image Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/23/world/tsunami-of-2004-fast-facts/index.html

 Founding of YouTube (2005)
Image Source: https://biographics.org/youtube-future-entertainment/
 Angela Merkel as First Woman
Chancellor in Germany (2005)
Image Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/30/world/europe/angela-merkel---fast-facts/index.html
 Exclusion of Pluto as a Planet (2006)
Image Source: https://www.debate.org/opinions/is-pluto-a-planet
 Baiji/ Yangtze River Dolphin was declared extinct (2006)

Image Source: https://www.yangtzeriver.org/yangtze-river-dolphin.htm

Opening of Burj Khalifa (2010)

Image Source: https://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/dubai/Dubais-Burj-Khalifa-turns-nine-50-facts-you-didnt-know-12

 Founding of Snapchat (2011)

Image Source: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snapchat.android&hl=en

 Typhoon Yolanda (2013)

Image Source: https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/05/20/oparr-official-explains-where-yolanda-funds-went/

 Duterte elected as President (2016)
Image Source: https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/11/11/19/duterte-to-take-3-day-break-palace
 Marawi Siege (2017)
Image Source: https://www.asiaone.com/asia/why-it-took-5-months-end-marawi-siege
Make or break century
“Humanity’s demands on
the planet are growing
rapidly. If we are able to
make the planet and
civilization work, we face a
magnificent future. If we
fail, we could be headed
for a new Dark Age.”
 Main Ideas
The onset of the 21st century world has greatly changed
the lives and events of humanity.

The kinds of jobs and the way people live will keep
changing.

The world faces many challenges in the new century.

Source: Mangiduyos, Gladys. Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century. Manila: REX Book Store, Inc. 2017.
 Has dawned amazing achievement

 Surprising milestones

 innovations

 Changes in modes of thinking

INTERNET
Growing internet access in the Philippines poses opportunities and
challenges for many kinds of companies.
Provided an “increasingly fertile channel for connecting with
consumers”. –( Greene 2014)
Leading learners to
become learned and
responsible citizens in the
context of today’s global
society.
It brings imperatives to develop
fair-mindedness along with
interpersonal communication
skills (written/oral) for the
interconnected and complex
world.
 “ In the Age of Info-whelm, students are bombarded by
information 24/7. Shrewd triage becomes an imperative.
Those who develop a synthesizing mind will rise to the top.”

Good synthesizers always keep an eye on the big picture while securing
and arranging the smaller details in useful ways.

Howard Gardner author of

the Five Minds for the
Future and the Theory of
Multiple Intelligences
 Age of Info-Whelm (Five Minds for the
Future by Gardner, 2005)

Shrewd Triage
Having a clever awareness and
sharp intelligence in identifying
which needs much attention.

Source: Mangiduyos, Gladys. Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century. Manila: REX Book Store, Inc. 2017.