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Giving feedback is very important to help people learn from their mistakes. From my leadership class we learned how the best way to give feedback depending on your relationship with the person and their experience. For this class its best to give mainly positive feedback since I won't know any of the other students and because, I'm assuming for most of us have never retold stories or blogged before. And from reading articles online, I've learned that positive feedback is good I just need to make sure it's constructive and goal-oriented. The specific article , discusses the importance of transparent feedback as well because it allows the person being criticized to understand exactly what it is they need to work on to improve the next time. I feel like that idea falls along the lines of the feedforward idea since we'll be giving feedback on student's ever-evolving projects so it's important to help them make the project the best it can be through positive feed...

Criticism is one of the hardest things to hear, even if it's constructive criticism because you have to hear that you're doing something wrong and not in the best way. Of course, no one is perfect and pretty much everything can be approved upon somehow, but we like to think that the way we're doing it is an improvement. Criticism is how we grow and become better, but learning to take it like a champ is difficult and requires you to take your feelings of failure out of the picture and instead look at it as a way to get better. For example in the article, Eight things students should do when they make a mistake , they talk about knowing you aren't alone and it's true, everyone everywhere is making a mistake that they can improve upon but only when we receive feedback will we know how to fix it next time and I think that is very important. Sometimes it can be hard to figure out how to fix it, but that is when you should go to the person who gave you the feedback or cri...