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LessonLink will be downloadable from both the Android and Apple App Stores. However, during the research stage, I will email you a direct download link. You will not have to pay any subscription fee during the research stage.
LessonLink is in the research stage. While it is in the research stage, LessonLink is free for all teachers, students, and parents.
LessonLink motivates your students to practice in a few ways:
Gamification: LessonLink assigns students a practice mission each week and awards students points whenever they click on the record button to practice. They can also earn extra points when they practice more days, reflect on their practice recording, behave, or be well-prepared on their lesson day. These points allow students to advance in the mapquest, collect customized rewards, and compete with other students in the same studio. The gamified environment provides students incentives to practice and a fun environment for students to compete with each other. LessonLink’s leaderboard feature allows parents to see their kids and other students’ progress compared to their children’s. These peer comparison features motivate students to practice and their parents to urge their children to practice.
Connection: LessonLink has three interfaces: teachers, parents, and students. With LessonLink, you can grade your students using your customized categories (e.g., musicality, preparedness, interpretation, techniques), and the parents will immediately know their children’s strengths and what they need to improve on. With Lessonlink’s chat feature, students can attach recording videos or seek their teacher’s guidance/feedback during the week. LessonLink’s forum also allows students to stay connected with other students. This connection creates relatedness, one of the crucial ingredients of Deci and Ryan’s self-determination theory, which promotes motivation.
Self-motivated: LessonLink records students’ progress and their practice history weekly. When students can visualize their progress, it motivates them to practice more.
LessonLink is designed to meet students' basic needs. According to Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1987), most behavior is multi-motivated, meaning behaviors are simultaneously determined by several or all basic needs rather than only one. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs includes the following types of needs that influence the psychology of education.
The first type of need is physiological. This type of need is functional, encompassing basic requirements and daily mundane life. LessonLink aims to simplify private music teachers’ workflow, allowing students, parents, and teachers to stay connected easily, stay informed, and be motivated
The second type of need is aesthetic need. This type of need is emotional. Fulfilling this need leads to a deeper sense of satisfaction in life as individuals seek environments or experiences that are pleasing, fun, and rewarding. LessonLink provides a gamified learning environment. In this environment, they compete with other students in the same studio, get rewarded with customized prizes and badges when they practice, and cultivate self-initiated and regulated practice habits.
The third type of need is self-actualization. One of the biggest reasons parents send their children to private music lessons is for their children to realize their personal potential, and self-fulfillment, seek personal growth, and peak experiences. LessonLink provides a channel for teachers to showcase their students’ work and for students to witness their own progress and experience their growth when they put in time and strategize their practice.
The fourth type of need is love and belongingness. This type of need seeks relatedness, love, trust, and acceptance. LessonLink is one of the few, if not the only, apps out there designed with three interfaces. We realize how important parents and teachers are in supporting students’ learning, especially when they are expected to practice independently at home throughout the week in between in-person lessons. With LessonLink, parents can see their child’s progress and be informed about their children’s strengths, weaknesses, and needs in private music studies so that they can quickly be involved to encourage, help, and support their children’s independent practice at home before their students reach the maximum points of frustration. Teachers can listen to their students practice and provide practical feedback and help when students need them at the moments when they practice. According to Deci and Ryan's self-determination Theory, keeping all students’ related adults, in this case, parents and teachers, in the loop with their studies helps them feel a sense of love and belonging and stay motivated.
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