I’ve been tagged with the thinking blogger meme, which asks you ” … to tag blogs with real merits, i.e. relative content, and above all – blogs that really get you thinking!”. This came via the screaming pages, and I must say thanks for the recommendation.
In what I believe is the spirit of this meme, I’m not going to tag any of my standard and essential blogs, like Jay, Jon, Rob, or Stephen (he’s already been tagged anyway).
Here are five highly-recommended blogs that make me think:
- Nine Shift has strongly influenced my perspective on the changes that we are witnessing as a society and an economy. It’s also changed my understanding about why change happens. I would recommend the book and the blog for anyone in North America interested in community development.
- Donald Clark’s Plan B is filled with thoughtful and sometimes contrarian opinions about the learning field. He has taken on Bloom’s taxonomy, instructional design, education and Freud.
- The Eide Neurolearning Blog, written by two doctors, is a wealth of information about how the brain works. The scientific studies reported here should be required reading for all educators.
- I have saved and tagged more articles from Anecdote than any other blog. This Australian multi-writer blog is filled with practical information about the power of narrative for organisations and learning.
- The name tells all, with think:lab by Christian Long. I don’t know how Christian can write so much and so well (perhaps they have 26 hour days in Texas) but he covers all aspects of learning environments, from the physical to the ephemeral.
Take these five blogs, plus the other 145 that I read, and there’s plenty to think about.
———————————————————-
Here are the rules, should you wish to continue this meme [I always wonder if propogating these memes is a good thing or not, but I figured in this case it may introduce readers to something new or different, so that can’t be bad]:
- If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
- Link to the original post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
- Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn’t fit your blog).
