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Page history last edited by Laura Gibbs 4 years, 7 months ago

 

Week 3: How to Give Feedback

 

Last week you read about the feedback process and how we need feedback about mistakes in order to learn. This week, you'll look at the flipside: how you can give feedback to others that can be part of their learning process. The assignment this week has two parts: first, I'd like you to look through a Feedback Gallery with student comments from last year, and then (like last week), I've got some articles for you to browse and read.

 

Note: If you did not do last week's assignment, please read that page first: Week 2. Receiving Feedback. Then, when you do this week's assignment, choose one article from Week 2 and one of the articles for the Week 3 assignment below.

 

 

Part A: The Feedback Gallery

 

In the past, students have told me that they enjoy getting praise and positive feedback about their stories, but what they really need is specific, constructive feedback to help them improve. To better understand just what kinds of feedback were most useful, I asked everybody to share some examples of feedback, and then I organized those examples into a FEEDBACK GALLERY

 

So, for the first part of this assignment, take a look through the Gallery and read some of the items there. That will give you an idea of the kinds of feedback that other students say they found to be really useful. If you want to write feedback that other students will find valuable, those are examples you can look to for ideas!

 

 

Part B: More Feedback Resources

 

As you saw in the Feedback Gallery, there are lots of ways to give useful feedback: you can ask questions, provide suggestions about things to change or add, point out problems to fix, etc. Offering praise and encouragement is good, but for really useful feedback, you need to get into specifics and think about how to move the project forward. Sometimes this is called "process praise" or "constructive praise," and you might also hear this useful term: "feedforward" (instead of feedback).

 

For more ideas about how to give useful feedback, I'd like you to browse these areas of the Diigo Library: feedback tips and strategies, and the problem with praise. You might also browse the area about negative feedback again this week; sometimes giving negative feedback can be just as emotionally difficult as receiving negative feedback, mostly because we tend to project our own fear of feedback on others. Working to overcome your own fear of negative feedback can be a good way to improve the feedback you give to others.

 

As an alternative to browsing the Diigo Library, you can browse the list below; these are some articles that I personally find very useful:

 

 

(As you can see from the title of that last article, one of the reasons I like to focus on feedback in this class is because it is a skill that can be useful to you in all kinds of situations, at school and at work.) 

 

 

Your Blog Post

 

To finish up this assignment, write a blog post with your thoughts about the two articles that you read, along with your thoughts about feedback strategies in general. Just like in last week's post, make sure to include the titles of the articles you read plus links, along with an image and image information. (You might browse the Mindset blog or the Feedback padlet in search of images that resonate with your ideas.)

 

Feel free to write about anything you think is important related to your experience with giving feedback to other people: in school, at work, in other settings. Do you feel confident about giving people useful feedback? Do you have some strategies you can recommend? Are there some feedback strategies you are thinking you would like to try this semester?

 

When you publish the post, include the phrase "Feedback Strategies" in the title, and use Week 3, Feedback as the post labels (don't forget to put a comma between the two labels).

 

And then you can do the Declaration:

 

 

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:

I have read two articles about feedback strategies, and I have shared my thoughts on this topic in a blog post. 

POST TITLE: I included the phrase "Feedback Strategies" in my blog post title. 

POST LABELS: I used "Feedback, Week 3" to label the post (comma between the two labels). 

IMAGE: I Included at least one image with image information.

 

 

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