Monday, February 7, 2011

Feedback. What the hell is it?

Feedback is your opinion on someone’s work, both good and bad. It is important to have feedback on the things you do because you learn from it. With feedback you can improve your weaknesses to improve the things you do. Good feedback helps us in learning, as I said above, because we find out what our weaknesses are and learn to improve our things.


The impacts of good feedback are that you’ll be able to learn from them and improve yourself while with bad feedback you can’t really do anything. Also it can bring down someone’s self esteem and really hurt people.


I watched this video about blogging used by students and a teacher on a certain school/collage (whatever they are learning in) and they explained that using the blogs, the students would be able to see their progress and reflecting on them. Also they could see the progress of other students and help them with things they don't understand or ask other students to help. They also said that all the criticism they get from the teachers and students helps them improve themselves. As well as that the blogs they created helped them understand the things they needed to learn more. The students also post comments on each others work that they would've probably never said to each other face-to-face. I agree with the lady talking about how blogging is good for feedback because, come on, aren't we all scared of what people might say of our work?


This would be an example of bad feedback:

I mean, I said I loved the song but didn't explain what exactly I loved. Did I love the lyrics? Their musical talent?

This, however would probably be a good feedback:

Here I explained what I liked about the post and how she could improve it. I also had a little bit of humour in it in order to make it more casual and friendly. Come on, no-one likes stern criticism.

I think I have been trying to give good feedback. I always try to include at least one positive point and one negative point.

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