Student Feedback Dilemmas
This post is part of the #EdublogsClub – a group of educators and edtech enthusiasts that blog around a common theme each week. After a few weeks off, I wanted to jump back in but this week's topic-- student feedback-- has me struggling. Feedback is so very important to all of us. We all crave feedback because we want to know what resonated with people and where to improve. Our students crave feedback because they need affirmation that they "did it right", whatever that means. And here is my struggle. I want our students to crave the learning process. I want them to accept the challenge to always improve. A "good job", or "wow! that's really interesting" is only part of the process. They should then continue from that point and be asking questions like: "What else can I do with this?" "Where can I go from here?" "What will my next step be?" Instead, they are usually satisfied with the former and mov...