Learning about different feedback strategies and the importance of feedback has been helpful for me to develop new ideas on how to be better. The article I read was "Be a Mirror" by Gravity Goldberg and this article provided a lot of good ideas that I have never heard of or used before. The article broke things down into different categories, and that for me made it easier to comprehend. I learned some good stuff about an open mindset and a fixed mindset. This article provided some good points such as if a student has a fixed mindset coming into the class, it will be hard to offer and feedback to that student versus a student coming into the class with an open mindset and wanting to learn. This article also provided 5 different qualities of feedback and why each of them are important. I liked the second quality of feedback, and that was to provide information to the writer with what they have already said, and not things they have yet to say because a mirror can only reflect on the things that have already been said. The fifth quality of feedback is also good information for me, and that is how you respond to the writer your talking to. It provided good ways on how to inform a writer about something and explained how it is more effective.
Yes, I feel confident about giving people feedback because I know it will only help. Learning and reading about the effectiveness of feedback has provided lots of ideas and facts to me that will help myself as well as others in the future. Some strategies I can recommend would be the 5 qualities of feedback provided in the article "Be a Mirror." They are broken down and easily explained and I think all 5 will have positive outcomes on the writers. A way I would like to improve on giving feedback is how I begin with the feedback. In the article I read it gave some examples of how to start of speaking while giving feedback, and it is something that made sense to me and something I would like to get better at. I would also like to get more in depth on some feedback, instead of stating the obvious. Overall, I was able to learn some valuable things that I know will help me with feedback in the future.
Hi Logan. It is important to have and open mindset in order to learn. If you are a know it all and do not listen to anyone else's thoughts that how will you learn from others. This is only appropriate in an academic setting. On the other hand, in personal lives I do not think it is a good idea to give someone feedback unless they ask for it or you are close to them. Thanks for sharing.
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