Pranali Patel's Blog

There were many good articles that I found for feedback tips and strategies that seem really useful when giving someone feedback. One that I really liked and found most helpful was ‘ 7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback ’ by Grant Wiggins, gives good examples on what exactly each of the 7 characteristics that were listed for better feedback meant. I like that he said to be specific, say exactly what to do, more or less or what would make it better. The article I liked about praising that was very interesting was ‘ A Troubling Side Effect of Praise ’ and the research done on kids was very interesting. Praising for efforts and for the correct answer caused most of the kids to cheat. This shows that it is not a good idea to praise someone, even though it may seem like a good idea. I think the best feedback strategies would be to be honest but saying helpful things on how something can be fix, give examples rather than saying, 'it could be better' or just saying 'g...

Seven Ways to Crush Self-Doubt in Creative Work  - This blog is very helping and can be used in any situation. Many times you learn things that only work for school but you can use this for anything in life. I really liked what John Spencer said, I think it was spot on. I really liked the examples that were given in the blog, especially about how a baby falls many times trying to learn to walk but the baby still gets up and tries to walk again. If babies can do this then why can't we do what we desire. I try to think of how no one is born with a lot of the skills we learn in our life time, we learn as we age.  Why rejection hurts so much — and what to do about it - No one likes rejection, no matter how old you are and no matter what situation you are in, rejection hurts. This was also a very helpful blog to read because rejection happens everywhere not just in college. Many people, even I would want to give up because of course it doesn't feel good to be rejected. It was a i...