Why We Exist?
To improve the quantity and quality of practice
LessonLink's creator, Adeline Brewer, has been teaching piano for over twenty years. Over the years, she realized that many students struggle with practice at home. They either don't devote enough time to practice or do not know how to practice. Mrs. Adeline has seen that when students keep showing up in the lesson unprepared, their skill development remains static, leading them to a downward spiral of diminishing motivation and self-efficacy and ultimately withdrawing from taking music lessons altogether. Since practice is so critical in music education, a music student is typically expected to practice consistently (i.e., 20 to 30 minutes daily) to reinforce the learning they received from their music teachers.
LessonLink aims to provide a practical solution to address music-independent-practice problems. After intensive research about motivation and self-regulation as a doctoral candidate in Education Technology, Mrs. Adeline designed LessonLink to transform theoretical concepts, including self-determination theory, self-regulation learning theory, gamified learning theory, and design thinking, into a realistic way of problem-solving.
To increase students' motivation and use of effective strategies to practice, LessonLink provides students with a fun, engaging, and incentivized learning environment and tools to implement effective strategies to practice during the week.
