LessonApp: developing a mobile lesson-planning tool for teachers

Note: The authors of this article work for LessonApp, an education technology company offering a product for teachers. Designing quality lessons is one of the cornerstones of teacher education in developed countries. For example, in Finland, lesson planning is based on the latest scientific research on learning and how to foster it. Achieving a versatile ‘toolbox’ of different methods for choosing the best possible pedagogical solution for different groups and situations is also essential (Lonka, 2018; Sahlberg, 2015). While teachers can always be flexible and change their plans during the lesson, planning lessons in advance helps to build more meaningful and beneficial lessons for one’s students. However, this is not reality for all the teachers around the world. Teachers in emerging countries do not always have access to proper teacher training and quality pedagogical knowledge, and therefore lack versatile models of carrying out lessons. For many of these teachers, the o