What are the building blocks? One of the key inventions of LessonApp is to use ‘building blocks’ when planning a new lesson. Each building block represents a phase or a function of a lesson. The idea is to design lessons by using these blocks according to the goal of the Read more…
Author: Johanna Järvinen Taubert In the Finnish general upper secondary school (high school) curriculum, philosophy is one of the mandatory subjects. Philosophy is not only seen as part of the shared, cultural knowledge everyone should have an understanding of, but also a way to develop much needed thinking skills. Studying Read more…
LessonApp had the privilege to take part in Next Billion EdTech Prize in Global Education and Skills Forum organized by Varkey Foundation in Dubai last week. The Varkey Foundation aims to ensure that every child gets a good education and works with a good teacher. “The Next Billion Prize was Read more…
This article has been published in Impact: Journal of the Chartered College of Teaching, Education technology Authors: Johanna Järvinen-Taubert and Päivi Valtonen Keywords: lesson planning, learning, teaching, socio-constructivist approach LessonApp – developing a mobile lesson planning tool for teachers It seems that designing quality lessons is one of the cornerstones Read more…
In the beginning, we were the bunch of people with the desire to help teachers of the world to design pedagogically better, inspiring and effective lessons. But how to do that? From the early on, we agreed that we wanted to equip the teachers with tools, so that they themselves Read more…
Designing quality lessons is in the very core of teacher training in Finland. During Finnish teacher training teacher students are taught different options and possibilities to design lessons in a pedagogically productive way. During their studies teacher students plan several lessons themselves and get feedback of their lesson plans. After Read more…