Feedback Strategies

Article: Be a Mirror: Give Readers Feedback That Fosters a Growth Mindset
This article gives useful information on the idea the we need to give feedback that is about the the reader is doing and not just feedback on what is missing. They give five steps on how to give the reader better feedback. Its say Instead of just saying what you think is missing tell them your thoughts on what they are writing about. It does say to not get personal and try to avoid using I. It states to provide constructive thoughts on what they are writing to help them move forward with their work. It say to focus on their process and be specific on what you suggest for them. I believe this would be a great way to get feedback on what one is doing but can have its downfalls. Someone could take the feedback of their work as criticism rather than it being helpful. Also some people like the personal touch that some feedback can provide. Otherwise this process seems like it would help to create great feedback and help someone push forward on their work.

Article: The Difference Between Praise and Feedback
This article give as the title state the difference between feedback and praise. It talks about how some people will provide praise thinking it feedback causing the person/child to continually feed on the praise. It states how instead of praise good feedback can cause someone to do better next time while lots of praise can make them want to not do it anymore or lose interest. I believe there need to be a balance between praise and feedback. We all know good feedback can help us to get better over time but some praise can also boost confidence but as stated too much praise can make us feed off of it. A perfect balance between the two is what is needed for the two. 

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Feedback Thoughts

The first article I read was " How to Get past Negativity Bias in Order to Hardwire Positive Experience." The article discusses how are brain will thrive on negative experiences and keep remembering them. When applying this to a learning situation we remember bad grades and mistakes that caused those making us not want to learn anything new. The article described a plan called heal. Basically if you start to have a negative thought about something start by thinking about something happy to get rid of the negativeness and engulf yourself in it. Afterwards start working again on what gave you the negative thoughts while keeping the negativeness in the background and happiness up front. This seems to me like this would be a good way for students to think, but even through the process of heal students will still struggle, but it is a good first step to helping students be less discouraged by new knowledge. It a good article and i would suggest people read it.

The second article I read was "Seven Ways to Crush Self-Doubt in Creative Work." The article gave as the title states Seven great ways to crush self-doubt. The ways in my opinion are really based on believing in yourself and not trying to be perfect at the same time. The author gives seven great ideas to get rid of the doubt, but the most important in my opinion is trusting yourself. This article gives ideas that I believe are use full and would help students to have more confidence in attempting new ideas. I would suggest people read this article also.

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