Feedback is the breakfast of champions
Ken Blanchard
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There is a stark difference between criticism and feedback. Criticism doesn’t have the ultimate gain and growth of the other person in mind and is often a selfish form of catharsis. The critic seeks to alleviate their frustrations by lumping their disaproval onto another. Feedback on the other hand is the tool of a coach, and one who cares about the athlete’s well being and ultimate success. Feedback is data, information that is specific and actionable and will lead to a better product, presentation or process. The goal of feedback is progress.
If feedback is the breakfast of champions as Ken Blanchard says, then should students simply be on the receiving end? No, there are far too many students and opportunities for feedback to establish a system where the teacher is the be-all and end-all of quality actionable feedback. To create a culture of growht an dempower students to take the ownership of the culture you need a tool and some methods for encouraging the culture and practice. That tool, for me is Google Jamboard.
Firstly, establishing a low vulnerability growth culture with students, particularly in the middle grades, is a challenge. Secondly, they kind of stink at it when they start. They need modeling, specific sentence starters, and ironically, feedback on their feedback.
If you want to teach students how to collaborate and provide peers with appropriate feedback, this video shows you how to do it quickly using Google Jamboard. In 60 seconds you can have students share their work with the class, comment, and collaborate with classmates as well as receive and give peer feedback in real-time.
If you are unfamiliar with Google Jamboard, check out the series of posts and the YouTube playlist on our channel. Regardless, Jamboard is an interactive whiteboard program that has basic tools for illustration and presentation. With the capabilities of the G-suite environment, students can work together live even if they are remotely learning or hybrid in location. Keeping students accountable for individual work.
In order to facilitate accountability among students, I have students work on their own ideas, explanations, and designs in a personally owned Jamboard. Then they use the three vertical “more” dots to save their work as an image. The image is imported to the class Jamboard for feedback, collaboration, and even defense or argumentation.
Organizing the chaos. When you give students the control over creation, collaboration, and feedback you need a way to control or facilitate the chaos. One idea I have used is to have students import their work to a specific panel that I determine in advance. Once they have their work imported, students give feedback above and below them in panel numbers. Or, odd panels work together and even work together. Whatever you use. Google Jamboard for, students collaborating, providing feedback and creating documents is a win that helps them and you Kick Some Class!
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