New Lock2Learn App Encourages Healthy Screen Time

CHICAGO, Nov. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Core news facts:

• Today, Lock2Learn, the company that makes screen time more productive and balanced, introduced an Android app for parents and children in grades kindergarten through eighth grade.  
• The Lock2Learn app encourages smarter screen time by periodically engaging children with grade-specific questions at time intervals determined by the parent.
• Lock2Learn was developed by a group of parents who wanted to encourage healthy device use and better tap into the learning and development potential of today's mobile devices.
• Rather than restrict or remove kids' time on a tablet or smartphone, Lock2Learn creates an environment where screen time is more productive and balanced.
• Recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) announced that it is revising its guidelines for children and screen time.
• For the past 15 years, the AAP has recommended children over two years old limit screen time to two hours a day and children under two years old avoid screens all together.
• With the Lock2Learn app on a mobile or tablet device, parents gain an interactive solution that encourages personalized and higher-quality screen time.
• Once the Lock2Learn app is installed, parents can select the appropriate grade-level and can automatically set frequency of quizzes at 2, 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minute intervals.
• The Lock2Learn quizzes range from one to 10 questions and are currently offered in two subjects, English and Math, for children grades kindergarten through eighth grade.  
• Lock2Learn worked with an educational content provider to ensure the content and questions are age-appropriate.
• When the child answers the required number of questions correctly, regular device use will resume.
• Additionally, the Lock2Learn app allows parents to set up to six profiles, to account for several children using the device.
• The Lock2Learn app also allows parents to select specific apps that cannot be accessed while the child is using the device.
• Once the time parameters and grade-level are set, parents simply need to choose the child's profile and their child can use the device based on the predetermined accessibility.  
• Lock2Learn also offers performance reports online or via email giving parents deeper insight into how their children are progressing in various subjects and how they are using their devices.
• Lock2Learn is now available for download for Android devices in the U.S. Google Play store and will include 50 questions of free content in both English and Math for each grade level offered. Additional Math and English content is available for $1.99 per subject per grade.
• For more information, please visit www.lock2learn.com.

Ryan Weldon, president of Lock2Learn:
"Mobile devices have become an integral part of our lives and completely eliminating screen time is just not realistic. What is more realistic is encouraging healthy, productive and balanced screen time. Rather than restrict screen time, we developed the Lock2Learn app to tap into the potential for a smart device to serve as an engaging learning platform and create natural interactions during device use. We want to give kids every chance at a bright future and Lock2Learn supplements and reinforces the classroom learning kids get at school with a device-based learning program."

About Lock2Learn
Lock2Learn makes screen time more productive and balanced for kids in kindergarten through eighth grade. The app periodically engages children with grade-specific questions. Founded in 2015, Lock2Learn is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. To learn more and download the app, visit www.Lock2Learn.com.

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