Trends, Network, and Critical Reading - 21st Century Culture

• Social Studies

  • Political Science

  • Networking
• 21st Century Skills

  • Technologies
• Critical Thinking

  • Reading between the lines
• Trends

  • To adopt a new behavior that have a big impact

  • "Craze"

  • Big impact on society

  • Behavior / New way of doing things

  • Last for century or 100 years
• How Can A Thing Become A Trend?

  • Society reacts to a stimuli
• Stimuli

  • Something that makes a person react
• FAD

  • Something that people are highly interested for short period of time

  • Quick / Fast rising popularity
• 5 Categories

  1. Notion of Change
  2. Behaviour
  3. Effects
  4. Time and Nature of Growth
  5. Scope and Limitation
• Notion of Change

  
  

  > Trend

  • Way we do things

  
  

  > FAD

  • New things that are currently do
• Behavior

  
  

  > Trend

  • Sustained behavior that turns into lifestyle, mindset, values

  
  

  > FAD

  • Intense
• Effects

  
  

  > Trend

  • Meets needs

  • Saves problem / issue

  
  

  > FAD

  • Coolness

  • Me-Too personality
• Time and Nature of Growth

  
  

  > Trend

  • Appears suddenly

  • Enormously popular

  • Does not disappear

  • Gets stronger overtime

  
  

  > FAD

  • Appears suddenly

  • Enormously popular

  • Suddenly disappear

  • Unexplainable growth
• Scope and Limitation

  > Trend

  • Can cross over many companies

  > FAD

  • Single / Limited brand

  • Stays with one company
• Spotting a Trend

  1. Trend Analysis
  2. Trend Spotting
  3. Trend Spotter
  4. Trend Setter
• Trend Analysis

  • Attempting to spot pattern / trend

  • Practice of collecting information

  • Examination, Conducting Research, Observation

  • To examine / analyze if trend will last for years
• Trend Spotting

  • Study of trends and the way they develop and affect society

  • Process of Identifying Trends:

  1. Trends Spotting
  2. Examine
• Trends Spotter

  • People who notice & report trends
• Trends Setter

  • People who start a trend

  • Influencers, Famous People, Business Men

  • Innovators: Creates and develop ideas
• 5 Ways To Spot and Capitalize a Trend

  1. Anticipate Change
  2. See It Coming
  3. Distinguish Between Short Term FAD or Long Term Trend
  4. Make Sure Your Solution Are Realistic
  5. Create Competitive Advantage
• Anticipate Change

  • Anticipate / Expect change to you and surroundings

  • Adopting new behavior
• See It Coming

  • Being aware / Updated to change

  • To be able to prepare
• Distinguish Between Short Term FAD or Long Term Trend

  • Know difference of FAD and Trend
• Make Sure Your Solution Are Realistic

  • To make realistic solution out of Trends
• Create Competitive Advantage

  • Having competitors in society

  • Being brave & Staying humane

  • 3 Ways to Complete / Have advantage

  > Take a risk

  > Lose the chance

  > Neutral
• Elements of Trends

  1. Mega Trends
  2. Micro Trends
• Mega Trends

  • Larger pattern of broad trends that reshape & transform lives

  • "Globalization": Affects the whole world
• 3 Global Mega Trends

  1. Digitalisation
  2. Artificial Intelligence
  3. Urbanization
• Digitalisation

  • Mass adoption of connected digital services by consumers, enterprises, & government

  • Use of Technology

  • Modernized Era (Industrialization)
• Artificial Intelligence

  • Simulation of human intelligence by machines, computers

  • Ability of computer / robot to do tasks

  • Human invented AI but more intelligent

  • Exceeds human intelligence
• Urbanization

  • Mass movement of population from rural to urban settings

  • Trend unique to past centuries
• Micro Trends

  • Tendency of direction of some phenomon that is persuasive within given sphere of influence and last for few years
• Order of FAD and Trends

  1. FAD - A FAD can become a Micro Trend but Micro Trend cannot become a FAD
  2. Micro Trend - A Micro Trend can becomes a Macro Trend
  3. Macro Trend
• What is the full name of the subject Trends?

  Trends, Network, and Critical Reading in the 21st Century Culture
• It is a behaviour or new way of doing things and has a big impact on society


  Trend
• What is something that makes people react?

  Stimuli
• What is something that people are highly interested in for relatively short period of time?

  FAD
• What are the 5 Categories of Trend and FAD?


  Notion of Change, Behaviour, Effects, Time and Nature of Growth, Scope and Limitation
• What is the practice of collecting information and attempting to spot pattern or trend?

  Trend Analysis
• What is the study of trends and the way they develop and affect society?

  Trend Spotting
• Whar is the process of identifying trends?

  Trend Spotting