Feedback Strategies: Week 3

The first article I read this week was Criticizing praise by Alfie Kohn.  I found it interesting because of how it talks about how not to use praise as just a feedback reward for some task, but actually appropriately use praise.  I found this article to explain a lot of my own way of giving feedback, which tends to not be overly praise filled, but not heavily criticizing either, mostly just observations on patterns and trends.  Potentially, this article is telling me I should praise just slightly more, provided it does not go over into "effort praise." 

The second article was How to craft constructive feedback by Jenn Gibbs.  This article talked heavily about being a neutral and balanced observer, pointing things out with really criticizing, offering the author a chance to explain their mistakes, as well as offering your own advice on what a potential fix could be.  This helps them get out of a potential jam they might be in by not really having a solution they can readily think of to the potential problem. 

Feedback Loop for a control system, from Wikimedia

I chose this image because this is the feedback that I deal with daily, in programming drone control systems.  

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