TRENDS, NETWORKS & CRITICAL THINKING IN THE 21ST CENTURY

When I saw Trends, Networks and Critical Thinking Skills in the 21st Century, I didn’t know what to make off it. It made me constantly wonder what it was about. During the first day of lesson, I thought that it was a cool subject since it mostly analyzes the different aspects of society that has blended into our everyday lives that we have forgotten what it really was and how it started. It was a bit difficult to fully grasp this subject because its not only memorization of terms and timelines and the different trends, but it emphasizes the keen outlook in life that would enable you to fully criticize and see the world objectively. 

Critical thinking, being the way it is, cannot easily be taught within the four corners of the classroom, but as it is, you need to be able to think creatively and beyond the box. It is this that makes TRENDS harder than it really is, and also, could be a bit intimidating because you can’t be too pompous because as was said, TRENDS grades you on how much you could dig under all the layers. Which could be a bit difficult at first especially if you’re not really into analyzing a certain phenomenon objectively.

My most favorite topic in this subject would probably how globalization affects the economy positively and negatively because this particular lesson presented different takes on the matter. Usually when discussing globalization, it only focuses on how our country could be on par with the other 1st world countries but it doesn´t discuss how much we are sacrificing, both material things and our humanity, to achieve the goals of globalization. It does´t particularly mean that i´m against globalization, but we could at least compormise so that at least not much of our identity as Filipinos would be taken away in the process of globalization.