Today was always going to be a bit tricky, in terms of presenting the autonomy-based part of the course in a way that our authority-based learners will understand and connect with.
While they're not entirely sold on it yet, or entirely sure how to go about it, there seemed a certain amount of interest in being able to do this themselves, and some degree of appreciation that this was the necessary tariff for taking grammar out of the classroom. When this is bolstered through the autonomy video over the weekend and the learner diary next week, I think that things will fall into place. I can forgive my students for not seeing this as a priority right now, as it's primarily for them to be prepared for the end-of-semester PET exam, which is still way off on the horizon.
The sentence auction went well, which showed me that the use of gamification can indeed reap rewards - within the framing device of a game, students were keen to work on grammar, and became competitive players. It'll therefore be interesting to see how they take to Classcraft once it's introduced on Friday.
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