Welcome to the April version of Edtech Present & Inform, by which our editors share a few of the new edtech merchandise which have caught our consideration this month. These usually are not opinions or endorsements, however a showcase of education-friendly gadgets, platforms, and extra that we expect could be noteworthy for you.
This month’s new choices embrace AI-ready enterprise laptops, new digital books primarily based on well-liked video characters, a complete information administration resolution, plus far more.
Acer | TravelMate P4 & P2 Copilot+ PCs
The Acer TravelMate P4 14 AI, TravelMate P4 Spin 14 AI, TravelMate P2 16 AI, and TravelMate P2 14 AI enterprise laptops provide AI-ready efficiency; related productiveness with Wi‑Fi 7, Thunderbolt 4, and Acer good videoconferencing instruments; and Intel vPro choices to simplify fleet administration and ship enterprise-grade safety.
Mind Pop & Digital Promise | AI Literacy Framework
BrainPOP, in partnership with Digital Promise, presents a brand new AI Literacy framework — a research-backed strategy designed to assist Ok-12 educators confidently train and navigate AI within the classroom, at a time when demand for trusted, vetted content material is quickly outpacing provide. This framework combines Digital Promise’s analysis experience with BrainPOP’s classroom-ready platform to ship scalable, equitable AI literacy assist for districts nationwide.
Bundl Kits are all-in-one expertise packages designed to remodel any room right into a high-performance, related expertise. Every equipment consists of curated units, touchscreens, equipment, cables, and setup directions—all chosen from the identical trusted manufacturers powering enterprise boardrooms, army and authorities companies, hospitals, and studios. Whether or not for working, assembly, gaming, streaming, or stress-free, Bundl Kits make it doable to attain outcomes that after required customized installers and hundreds of {dollars} in labor, now simplified right into a guided DIY expertise.
ClassDojo | Funds
Launching in late 2026, ClassDojo Funds allows colleges to gather discipline journey charges, handle fundraisers, course of expertise charges, and settle for funds. Powered by Pay Principle’s cost facilitation infrastructure, ClassDojo Funds eliminates the friction of offline cost collections and third-party portals whereas guaranteeing each household can take part—together with via cash-to-digital acceptance at hundreds of retail places nationwide.
Discovery Training | Related Ecosystem
The Discovery Training Related Ecosystem is a unified Ok-12 framework that embeds AI, tutorial sources, adaptive studying, {and professional} readiness straight into the each day movement of educating. Grounded in 20+ years of educating and studying, it integrates AI into on a regular basis educating—bringing collectively curriculum, adaptive studying, and instruments like evaluation creation and real-time insights—alongside AI literacy sources {and professional} studying to assist districts transfer towards extra cohesive, instruction-centered use.
Edlio | Edlio Chatbot
The brand new Edlio Chatbot is a local AI-powered assistant constructed straight into the Edlio CMS. Not like bolt-on third-party instruments, it lives in the identical dashboard colleges already use to handle their web site, cell app, mass communications, and funds, delivering prompt, intent-aware solutions in a household’s language, 24/7, with out including a single job to a workers member’s plate.
Edthena | AI Coach By Edthena On-Demand Teaching
AI Coach by Edthena now presents on-demand teaching for tutorial coaches and instructor mentors. Accessible throughout the platform at no extra value, this new module offers coaches with the chance to replicate on their teaching conversations and interact in versatile, self-paced skilled studying identical to their lecturers do. The brand new AI Coach module, which was co-designed with knowledgeable coaches and leaders, mirrors the identical reflective teaching cycle utilized by lecturers.
Epic | Expanded Library
Epic proclaims a brand new cope with Nickelodeon that can assist flip display time into story time. Epic will add new books and studying experiences impressed by a few of Nickelodeon’s hottest franchises, together with SpongeBob SquarePants, PAW Patrol, Dora, Rugrats, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Shimmer and Shine, Avatar: The Final Airbender, Rusty Rivets and Blaze and the Monster Machines.
Extron | DTP3 CrossPoint 42 USB
The Extron DTP3 CrossPoint 42 USB is a compact 4×2 matrix switcher that helps 10 Gbps information on the native USB-C host port and four-port hub, plus host switching and USB 2 information extension. It options USB-C and HDMI inputs, HDMI outputs, plus a DTP3 output for extending video, audio, information, and management alerts as much as 330 toes (100 meters) over a shielded CAT 6A cable.
IPC | One Join One Hyperlink
One Hyperlink delivers unparalleled electro‑acoustical echo cancellation and extremely‑loudspeakers and helps Level to Factors, Get together Traces, Mounted Teams, and IFBs. The keypanel presents unprecedented energy, ease of deployment, and business main affordability. With good button expertise, customers acquire the pliability and comfort of a software-based intercom system whereas nonetheless having fun with the tactile expertise many operators favor. Channels may be accessed via the touchscreen interface or via 4 programmable bodily good buttons.
Magewell | Professional Convert IP to AIO 4K
Professional Convert IP to AIO 4K builds on the options of the lately launched Professional Convert IP to HDMI, with 4K decoding at 60FPS and output through each HDMI 2.0 and 12G-SDI with assist for HDR10 and HLG. The brand new system helps a variety of IP and streaming applied sciences, whereas an built-in multi-viewer shows as much as 4 HD IP enter streams in preset twin or quad layouts.
McGraw Hill & Renaissance | New Partnership
McGraw Hill and Renaissance have launched a brand new collaboration to reinforce data-driven, customized studying experiences and enhance studying outcomes. Launching nationwide for back-to-school 2026, the collaboration allows the connection of information between Renaissance Star Assessments and McGraw Hill’s math and literacy curricula. Offering McGraw Hill curriculum insights inside Renaissance Intelligence—Renaissance’s new unified information and insights system—strengthens educators’ talents to attach evaluation, instruction, and observe extra meaningfully at scale.
Pearson | Foundations of AI for PK-12 Educators
Foundations of AI for PK-12 Educators is a self-paced on-line course now obtainable to assist lecturers use AI confidently and responsibly. This system offers classroom-focused steering to assist studying, construct AI literacy, and uphold educational integrity. It builds on Pearson’s analysis, “Evaluation Developed: Redefining Formative Evaluation in a Generative AI Period,” which inspires educators to maneuver past merely detecting AI misuse.
Photon Training & Midwich | New Partnership
Photon Training has signed an unique settlement with edtech distributor Midwich to carry Picture Training’s two flagship product traces, Classwise and the Photon Robotic, to U.S. colleges. The Photon Robotic is an interactive robotic that mixes social competencies resembling teamwork and communication with technical/STEAM abilities, whereas Classwise helps lecturers gamify classes by enabling reside quizzes, real-time suggestions, and data-driven evaluation.
Purple Rover | Information
Constructed for Ok-12 HR directors, Information is the latest resolution obtainable inside Purple Rover’s Ok-12 HCM platform, which is designed to assist HR and directors appeal to, retain, and develop one of the best educator expertise. Information is accessible at this time and collaborates with Purple Rover’s current options, together with Absence Administration, Time Monitoring, Hiring, and Skilled Growth Administration to streamline administrative processes and assist the whole worker journey.
Summit K12 | Summit 360
Summit 360 is a complete platform that collects, shops, and securely manages information throughout each stage of the English Learner journey – from identification via reclassification. Along with Summit K12’s Accelerated English Language Growth platform Hook up with Literacy, Summit 360 creates an answer that integrates accountability, evaluation, and instruction.
Xthings | X Tower
X Tower is an autonomous, solar-powered safety tower designed for fast deployment in environments the place conventional wired programs are impractical or cost-prohibitive. It’s constructed to handle frequent bodily safety challenges, together with restricted infrastructure, lengthy set up timelines, and gaps in protection throughout giant, distributed, or distant websites. The system is designed to supply steady monitoring, real-time detection, and speedy response capabilities in a self-contained platform that may be deployed with out trenching, wiring, or dependence on grid energy.
