Bay Area Based Ed-tech development company P-Ink Ventures, creators of Genius App Manager, Announces Collaboration with PowerSchool
August 30th, 2021 San Jose, CA P-Ink Ventures, creators of Genius App Manager, announces new collaboration with PowerSchool, the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America, to help schools provide teachers and parents with integrated tools to provide students a digital distraction-free environment, using artificial intelligence (AI) as a method to learn study habits and task management and exercise.
With?screen time addiction being a?front and center?problem in today’s world,?Genius App Manager has developed a tool for parents and teachers to curb digital distractions at home and in the classroom. Genius App Manager is a reward-based screen time solution tool for parents and children with the goal of getting students physically moving and completing chores and tasks while never feeling punished.
This new partnership will allow schools to provide parents with tools integrated into PowerSchool’s learning management system, PowerSchool Unified Classroom Schoology Learning, that will serve as a personal assistant to the student and child. Managed by both the teacher and parents, kids will have a virtual personal assistant with which to interact using AI as a method to optimize learning habits for the child while keeping them on track with homework, exercise, and responsibilities. As part of the integration, Genius will also allow schools to turn on a Geo-Fencing technology which will block digital distractions such as online gaming, social media platforms and other digital distractions while in the classroom so that student can focus more on learning.
Isaac Gredinberg, President of P-Ink ventures says “this collaboration couldn’t come at a better time. With online gaming and social media becoming even more prevalent among kids and teens, parents and teachers need all the help they can get to make sure education isn’t sacrificed at the hands of our digital world.”
PowerSchool is the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America. Its mission is to power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps educators and students realize their full potential, in their way. PowerSchool connects students, teachers, administrators, and parents, with the shared goal of improving student outcomes. From the office to the classroom to the home, it helps schools and districts efficiently manage state reporting and related compliance, special education, finance, human resources, talent, registration, attendance, funding, learning, instruction, grading, assessments, and analytics in one unified platform. PowerSchool supports over 45 million students globally and more than 12,000 customers, including 93 of the top 100 districts by student enrollment in the United States, and sells solutions in over 90 countries.
"We are excited to welcome?P-Ink Ventures into PowerSchool's partner program," said Alan Taylor, PowerSchool Senior Vice President, Corporate Development. "This?collaboration?allows for our?shared?customers to benefit from?additional tools that support the educational experience while also nurturing student and parent engagement.”?
P-Ink Ventures, is a PowerSchool Learning Application Partner - independently integrating with Schoology using LTI.
For more information on PowerSchool’s Partner Program, visit??
powerschool.com/company/partners/?or email PartnerProgram@PowerSchool.com.?
About Genius App Manager
Genius App Manager is the leader in parental control technology, introducing the first reward based parental controls solution. Their focus has been to be an noninvasive solution with privacy first for the parents and schools. The company does NOT use MDM technology, meaning there is no insight to parents or children’s devices providing the safest most private form of parental control.
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