It’s a great time to think about receiving midsemester feedback on your course. I have written about the topics in the past on my blog, however, this time I used a new resource that might be helpful for multiple purposes: Google Illuminate is an AI tool that creates podcast-style audio summaries of research papers. It’s designed to… Read more »
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Quick Tip: Wise Feedback
The article “Breaking the Cycle of Mistrust: Wise Interventions to Provide Critical Feedback Across the Racial Divide,” by Yeager et al. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xge-a0033906.pdf , introduces the concept of wise feedback; a strategy that helps instructors frame feedback in a way that communicates that students can meet high expectations and gives concrete direction for how to meet… Read more »
Life-Hacks for Giving Student Feedback
Below is a list of hacks for providing feedback that were compiled from a variety of sources, including The Care and Feeding of Helpful Feedback, and The Canvas Instructors Guide, Be mindful of your own state of mind, and avoid grading when angry, frustrated, tired. The hope is that when we grade, we will be like Gandalf — a… Read more »