This wouldn’t work as the only exercise, but could be useful if paired with another.
Presumably all students have other things they could be doing with their time, some of it possibly fun. Near the end of the lesson, perhaps just before the last exercise, with maybe 15-20 minutes left in the session, present this option: You can leave right now and get on with your day.
Obviously this is always an option, no one is required to stay against their will, but it’s usually considered bad form and it’s never given as an explicit option. Tell everyone to think about it for at least a full by-the-clock minute. What they could learn in the next 20 minutes vs what else they could do, and the consequences of both options. Then let them make their decision.
Afterwards both those who stayed and those who left may rethink their choice at least once and wonder if their choice was the best one. If nothing else, it could be memorable.
That is an AWESOME way to grade the success of the lesson!! If half the audience leaves, then either the audience still isn’t making good choices (in which case you clearly didn’t teach them well), or they made the correct choice and your lesson genuinely isn’t worth their time.
(Or you’re teaching an audience that isn’t ready for it, but that’s still a failing in the teaching, just on a more administrative “select your audience better” level.)
This wouldn’t work as the only exercise, but could be useful if paired with another.
Presumably all students have other things they could be doing with their time, some of it possibly fun. Near the end of the lesson, perhaps just before the last exercise, with maybe 15-20 minutes left in the session, present this option: You can leave right now and get on with your day.
Obviously this is always an option, no one is required to stay against their will, but it’s usually considered bad form and it’s never given as an explicit option. Tell everyone to think about it for at least a full by-the-clock minute. What they could learn in the next 20 minutes vs what else they could do, and the consequences of both options. Then let them make their decision.
Afterwards both those who stayed and those who left may rethink their choice at least once and wonder if their choice was the best one. If nothing else, it could be memorable.
That is an AWESOME way to grade the success of the lesson!! If half the audience leaves, then either the audience still isn’t making good choices (in which case you clearly didn’t teach them well), or they made the correct choice and your lesson genuinely isn’t worth their time.
(Or you’re teaching an audience that isn’t ready for it, but that’s still a failing in the teaching, just on a more administrative “select your audience better” level.)