Linking

Continue building a bridge between your practice, your action research and what you are learning.  Share what inspires you, observations, reflections, experiences, connections, dilemmas.

Although potentially confessing the limits of my intellectual capacity or a mere byproduct of the times and my age, I feel as if I am operating counter to what I have always been told when being counseled about pursuing advanced degrees. "You will know more and more about less and less the further you go in your education," I was told, yet my current experience is the exact opposite, i.e., a feeling of knowing less and less about more and more. I fully acknowledge that I fall victim to my own biases and crippling over-analysis on particular topics and need to embrace greater risk given the nature of our innovative learnings. That said, it's hard. In looking for the silver lining, when I find a practice, idea, or strategy that fits within my personal and professional construct, I latch on to it like a nursing baby to an engorged teat. An example being, I find myself continually reciting some of the central ideas within the Dervin sense making article. That said, it goes beyond my previously mentioned constructs, to me it has greater utility and it is here where I struggle. Utility is bound by what is perceived to be needed. My entire action research was based on a need my school had which I fulfilled through additional research, meaning the need came before the practice. Maybe overthinking again, but am I incapable of true innovation? I sit in countless meetings where my filter is, what do I need to do - this is probably not a good collaborative practice. Okay, enough rambling. To synthesize the question although I feel my learning is supporting my action research, I still find myself quickly filtering out technology, practices and ideas to which I do not attribute great utility.