HUMSS - Q3 - Trends - Mod4 - Understanding Strategic Analysis and Intuitive Thinking

Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century Quarter 3 – Module 4: Understanding Strategic Analysis and Intuitive Thinking

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Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century Quarter 3 – Module 4: Understanding Strategic Analysis and Intuitive Thinking

Introductory Message This Self-Learning Module (SLM) is prepared so that you, our dear learners, can continue your studies and learn while at home. Activities, questions, directions, exercises, and discussions are carefully stated for you to understand each lesson. Each SLM is composed of different parts. Each part shall guide you step-bystep as you discover and understand the lesson prepared for you. Pre-tests are provided to measure your prior knowledge on lessons in each SLM. This will tell you if you need to proceed on completing this module or if you need to ask your facilitator or your teacher’s assistance for better understanding of the lesson. At the end of each module, you need to answer the post-test to self-check your learning. Answer keys are provided for each activity and test. We trust that you will be honest in using these. In addition to the material in the main text, Notes to the Teacher are also provided to our facilitators and parents for strategies and reminders on how they can best help you on your home-based learning. Please use this module with care. Do not put unnecessary marks on any part of this SLM. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises and tests. And read the instructions carefully before performing each task. If you have any questions in using this SLM or any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Thank you.

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What I Need to Know

How does one become prudent in a culture with overwhelming information and demands? This module will present the intuitive and strategic thinking process. It will show how one can come up with a quick decision or conclusion without being partial but promoting the common good. It will introduce the rigors of intuitive and strategic analysis and how both could work in hand. After going through this module, you should be able to: 1. explain strategic analysis and intuitive thinking (HUMSS_MCT12-Ic-e2); a. define strategic analysis and intuitive thinking (HUMSS_MCT12-Ic-e-1); b. differentiate key components in strategic analysis and intuitive thinking (HUMSS_MCT12-Ic-e-5); 2. Apply strategic analysis (HUMSS_MCT12-Ic-e-3); and 3. Apply intuitive thinking in solving a problem in the community using a map of social networks (HUMSS_MCT12-Ic-e-4) (HUMSS_MCT12-Ice-6).

What I Know

A. Directions: Read and analyze the statements and identify if these statements pertain to a strategic analysis and intuitive thinking. Write SA if the statement pertains to the descriptions of strategic analysis and IT if the statement pertains to intuitive thinking. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. ______1. It is referred to as gut feeling, sixth sense, inner sense, instinct, inner voice, spiritual guide, etc. ______2. It involves additional sensors to perceive and get aware of the information from outside. ______3. It is spontaneous, quick, and finished at one time. ______4. This involves looking at the context of the problem. ______5. It refers to a system or method that requires deliberate, abstract, and effortful thinking that breaks down a complex problem into parts. ______6. The amount of time and resources are the primary factors. ______7. It is best used when a person is immersed in his or her field of expertise. ______8. It is effectively used in dealing with complex problems. ______9. This is the ability to understand something instinctively. ______10. It is relevant in addressing personal issues as a student. B. Directions: The following are statements about the concepts you will going to learn from this module. Write TRUE if the sentence is correct, write FALSE otherwise. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. ______11. Holistic decision is attained when strategic analysis and intuitive thinking are observed. ______12. Community refers to a particular geographic location with people living under the same set of laws and recognizing common leaders. ______13. Every individual is a decision maker. ______14. Political networks are composed of relations with government officials, student government, and community leaders, among others. ______15. Intuitive thinking follows specific standards, formula, and criteria.

Lesson

Understanding Strategic Analysis and Intuitive Thinking

We all think. We have no choice but to think. In fact, the great Aristotle described us, human persons as the “thinking being”. However, could we challenge ourselves to think at a higher level? Is thinking a skill that can be improved? How often do we actually think about the way we think?

What’s In

Directions: Complete the puzzle below. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

What’s New Thinking is an important part of our human experience, and one that has captivated people for centuries. Thinking skills are the mental activities you use to process information, make connections, make decisions, and create new ideas. You use your thinking skills when you try to make sense of experiences, solve problems, make decisions, ask questions, make plans, or organize information. ("Thinking Skills - Analytical, Critical and Creative Thinking", 2021) Directions: Put a check (√ ) on each blank if the following is true to you. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. ______1. ______2. ______3. ______4. ______5. ______6. ______7. ______8. ______9. ______10.

I think several times before I do something. I often assume and it usually works. When people relay information to me, I easily believe it. I tend to believe what I read. I take responsibility to everything I hear and say. I verify and look for basis before concluding. I answer questions which I do not know. I randomly click “Like” in Facebook without any reason. I ask questions why I need to do my assigned tasks. I just yield to whatever I am asked to do.

What is It

As already described in the preliminary above, Aristotle described the human person as an “rational animal” which only mean that we humans are the only beings capable of reasoning or thinking. This concept was reiterated by the modern thinker, Rene Descartes, in his famous “cogito ergo sum” or “I think therefore I exist” which he meant that we human beings, whether we liked it or not, whether we choose it or not, whether we doubt it or not, we think. The question “why we think?” may be functionally answered by sciences like psychology, biology and physics but the question “how we think?” brings us to the process and development of our capacity to think. Strategic Analysis and Intuitive Thinking Defined Strategic analysis refers to a system or method that requires deliberate, abstract, and effortful thinking that breaks down a complex problem into parts. Deliberate thinking employs a detailed examination of a problem to come up with a solution. This involves looking at the context of the problem. The amount of time and resources are the primary factors in strategic analysis. The most common strategic analysis model used in decision-making follows five steps as illustrated in the diagram below. (Arzadon, 2018)

1. Identify the problem

2. Analyze the problem

5. Reflect on the outcomes

4. Implement the solution

3. Generate a solution

STEPS 1. Identify

EXPLANATION Involves defining the problem and the factors or conditions involved in the situation 2. Analyze Examining the variables that will change state situations, including the potential challenges and its causes 3. Generate Setting practical, reasonable, and creative criteria and strategies to solve the problem 4. Implement Execution of the plan 5. Assess and reflect on Draw lessons that will guide future decisions the outcome The process above requires you to follow a pattern to creatively address a situation. This involves strategic thinking. Another focus of this lesson is for you to engage in decision-making activities that will allow you to apply decision making methods. Strategic analysis is relevant in addressing your personal issues as a student. It means that you can also analyze your own strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in order to make creative strategies or solutions in facing life challenges. In practice, a personal SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threat/s) will help you understand your personal issues and goals as well as construct effective ways in dealing with both. This is illustrated through the personal SWOT analysis shown on the next page, which presents that of a student who wishes to finish high school with good grades. Strengths Weaknesses 1. What values, skills, and abilities 1. What limits or hinders you in do you possess? getting good grades? 2. How can you use these to get good 2. How can your limitations deter grades? from achieving your goal? 3. What learning strategies do you need to develop in order to achieve your goal? Personal SWOT Analysis Diagram Opportunities 1. What social and cultural factors can help you attain and sustain your goal? 2. Who can help you in pursuing your goal?

Threat/s What obstacles might limit and stop you from pursuing your goal?

Let us now proceed to the discussion of intuitive thinking!

Intuitive thinking is “quick and ready insight” (Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary). It is another approach to decision-making. This is the ability to understand something instinctively without the need for conscious reasoning. Sometimes, it is referred to as gut feeling, sixth sense, inner sense, instinct, inner voice, spiritual guide, etc. Intuitive thinking is affected by how one feels and define a thing or event. Particular norms and value systems within a community are considered when making decisions. For example, among some indigenous people, their farmers would not touch certain places in the field like an anthill. When asked why they do avoid such places, they cannot cite any pragmatic reason. It was just intuition. Maybe they will say that nuno sa punso (a mythical dwarf-like creature), lives in those places. Soil scientist said that such is a sound practice because anthills are necessary to maintain the physical, chemical, and biological health of the soil. Intuitive decision-making is far more than using common sense because it involves additional sensors to perceive and get aware of the information from outside. In dealing with everyday life issues and situations, we are called to make immediate decisions based on our ‘gut’ feelings and prior knowledge and experiences. This type of decision-making is evident in various situations: a doctor assessing an emergency case; a teacher determining the reason for a child’s inattentiveness in class; a buyer examining which vegetable to buy; and a firefighter trying to rescue a fire victim. In these cases, one would not hesitate or delay making decisions because these situations need immediate action. The question is now whether rational reasoning or intuitive decision-making is generally better. The question is rather how both approaches can be best combined for best results and to avoid mistakes and prejudices. The Venn Diagram below shows some similarities and differences between strategic analysis and intuitive thinking.

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STRATEGIC ANALYSIS starts from an idea or concept and moves on to what can be associated with it brain-centered hard facts, data, instructions needs time to finish in one or more sittings or sessions well-planned

INTUITIVE THINKING • logical mind needed

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focuses on the idea or concept and its attributes heart centered hunch, instinct, gut feeling spontaneous, quick, finished at one time unplanned

Using Intuitive Thinking in Social Networks Each person is engaged in a variety of networks associated with his or her multiple roles and interests in the community. According to Arzadon et.al. (2017), these networks can be, among others, political, economic, and sociocultural. Your political networks are composed of relations with government officials, student government, and community leaders, among others. The economic networks you belong to cover the manufacturers, agents, and sellers of the goods you consume such as those in stores, groceries, markets, and malls as well as money lenders. Your sociocultural or social networks are those belonging to your dance troupe, choir, reading club, band, arts club, or theater company. Kinship ties, neighborhood associations, friendship clubs, and veterans’ associations also belong to the social network wherein people constantly engage in close communication and interaction through visits, phone calls, text messages, and activities of common interest. Social networks appear as clusters and support groups of people who share similar interests, backgrounds, and real-life connections. They are avenues for meeting new friends, reuniting with old and lost friends, exchanging gifts and favors, and developing cooperation. The community is home to this web of interrelations and interconnections of people and institutions. Community refers to a particular geographic location with people living under the same set of laws and recognizing common leaders. Studies of community linkages deal usually with who was seen interacting with whom. Another concept in the study of social ties is the center of influence. This is the person to whom people gravitate around. This person who can give favors, can command and make things happen. Examples of center of influence are the mayor, judge, barangay captain, school principal, and university president, among others. His or her influence transcends the boundaries of social networks and thus reaches other kinds of networks. A center of influence has many people and institutions attached to him or her, thereby creating a substantial influence in the community.

What’s More

A. Directions: Examine the picture below. Write reasons with your family members and answer the questions provided. Use a separate sheet of paper for your answers.

Rommel, a five-year-old boy, puts a label “salt” into a jar of sugar. Actually, he has been observing it almost everyday because many ants are attacking the jar. 1. Why do you think Rommel has labeled the jar of sugar “salt”? __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Did he use intuitive or strategic way of thinking? Why? __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What is lacking in his problem-solving skill? __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________

B. Think of specific events in your life where you had to exercise intuitive thinking and strategic analysis in your decisions. Reflect on the insights you have gained from both experiences. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. Strategic Analysis: _______________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ Event: ___________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ Insight: __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________

Intuitive Thinking: _______________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ Event: ___________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ Insight: __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________

What I Have Learned

Directions: Complete the following sentences by reflecting on what you have learned. You may further explain your answers. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

1. Strategic thinking refers to ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 2. Intuitive thinking refers to ____________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 3. Political networks are ________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. Economic networks are ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 5. Social networks are __________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________

You can now proceed to the next part of this module!

What I Can Do

Directions: Using your understanding about strategic analysis and intuitive thinking, decide whether each situation requires intuitive thinking or strategic analysis. Provide a short explanation of your answer. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. 1.

A doctor attending to the patients in the emergency room ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 2. A scientist finding a cure or an infectious disease ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 3. A group of researchers solving climate change ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. A firefighter rescuing victims from a burning building ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 5. A lawyer solving a case ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 6. A street vendor trying to sell and generate good profit within a day ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 7. A teacher wanting to solve poor motivation among her students ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 8. A lady trying to figure out whether to bring or not an umbrella in anticipation of rain ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 9. A couple wanting to buy a house in a subdivision ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 10. A mother attending to the whining of her child ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________

Assessment

A. Directions: Read and analyze the statements and identify if these statements pertain to a strategic analysis and intuitive thinking. Write SA if the statement pertains to the descriptions of strategic analysis and IT if the statement pertains to intuitive thinking. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. ______1. It refers to a system or method that requires deliberate, abstract, and effortful thinking that breaks down a complex problem into parts. ______2. This involves looking at the context of the problem. ______3. It involves additional sensors to perceive and get aware of the information from outside. ______4. It is referred to as gut feeling, sixth sense, inner sense, instinct, inner voice, spiritual guide, etc. ______5. It is spontaneous, quick, and finished at one time. B. Directions: The following are statements about the concepts you have learned in this module. Write TRUE if the sentence is correct, write FALSE otherwise. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. ______6. Intuitive thinking follows specific standards, formula, and criteria. ______7. Holistic decision is attained when strategic analysis and intuitive thinking are observed. ______8. Every individual is a decision maker. ______9. Community refers to a particular geographic location with people living under the same set of laws and recognizing common leaders. ______10. Economic networks are composed of relations with government officials, student government, and community leaders, among others. C. Directions: Identify five persons who work under the given network. Political Network a. b. c. d. e.

Economic Network a. b. c. d. e.

Sociocultural Network a. b. c. d. e.

Additional Activities

Directions: Answer the following questions: 1. When and how do I apply strategic thinking?

__________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ 2. When and how do I apply intuitive thinking?

You did a great job finishing this module! I hope you enjoyed learning the concepts of strategic analysis and intuitive thinking! Be ready for the next one!

What I Know: 1. IT 2. IT 3. IT 4. SA 5. SA 6. SA 7. IT 8. SA 9. IT 10. SA B. True or false 11. TRUE 12. TRUE 13. TRUE 14. TRUE

What’s In: 1.DOCUMENTATION 2.MEMORY 3. ANALYSIS 4. PATTERN 5. PRESENTATION 6. MOOD BOARD 7. STORY BOARD 8. MEGATREND 9. GIGATREND 10. MACROTREND 11.FALSE 12. TRUE 13. TRUE 14. FALSE 15. TRUE

What’s New: Students’ answers may vary.

What’s More: Students’ answers may vary.

15. TRUE

What I Have Learned: Students’ answers may vary.

Students’ answers may vary.

Assessment:

What I Can Do:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

SA SA IT IT IT

Additional Activities: Students’ answers may vary.

B. 6. FALSE 7. TRUE 8. TRUE 9. TRUE 10. FALSE C. Students’ answers may vary.

Answer Key

RUBRICS FOR ESSAY Adapted from: Tuazon, Jenny

CONTENT The presence of ideas developed through facts, examples, anecdotes, reasons and/or explanations Substantial, specific, and/or illustrative content demonstrating strong development and sophisticated ideas Sufficiently developed content with adequate elaboration or explanation Limited content with inadequate elaboration or explanation Superficial and/or minimal content

2 Points

1 Point

0 Point

STYLE/ CONVENTIONS The choice, use and arrangement of words and sentence structures that create tone and voice Precise, illustrative use of a variety of words and sentence structures to create consistent writer’s voice and tone appropriate to audience Generic use of a variety of words and sentence structures that may or may not create writer’s voice and tone appropriate to audience Limited word choice and control of sentence structures that inhibit voice and tone Minimal variety in word choice and minimal control of sentence structures

2-Point Rubric- Short Response The response has sufficient number of relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, and/or other information according to the requirements of the prompt. The response has some relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, and/or other information according to the requirements of the prompt. The response is totally inaccurate.

References Arzadon, M., Romerosa, P. and Zarate, M., 2018. Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking. 1st ed. Quezon City, Manila: Vibal Group, Inc., p.7. Benson, Faith. 2019. "ACE Short Response Rubric". https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/ACE-short-responserubric-2280621. DepEd (2020). K to 12 Most Essential Learning Competencies. Mangiduyos, Gladys P. 2017. Trends, Networks, And Critical Thinking in the 21st Century. 1st ed. Sampaloc, Manila: Rex Publishing. "Thinking Skills - Analytical, Critical and Creative Thinking". 2021. Thepeakperformancecenter.com. https://thepeakperformancecenter.com/educational-learning/thinking/. Tuazon, Jenny. 2013. "Rubrics for Essay". http://https;//www.slideshare.net/jennytuazon01630/rubrics-in-essay. Urgel, Elizabeth. 2017. Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century Culture. 1st ed. Makati City, Philippines: DIWA Learning Systems Inc.,

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