FETC 2026 returned to Orlando this January, and the convention didn’t disappoint. New York EdTech Director Alana Winnick and her college students opened the convention with an inspiring keynote, setting a student-centered tone that resonated by means of each session and throughout the Expo ground.
Beneath is a snapshot of the improvements on show, that includes developments in AI and VR, personalised curricula, EDLA-certified interactive shows, and extra. These aren’t evaluations or endorsements, however a showcase of education-friendly objects, platforms, and extra that we expect may be noteworthy for you.
BenQ | RP05 Interactive Show
The brand new AI-ready RP05 Interactive Show joins the RP04, delivering smarter and quicker efficiency and intuitive instruments to help interactive educating. The EDLA-certified RP Collection makes it simple to construct dynamic classes with responsive contact, whiteboarding, multi-window views, and app integration.
Luxor CellGuard | Cell Cellphone Storage Cupboard
The Luxor CellGuard Cell Cellphone Storage Cupboard is engineered to fulfill the rigorous calls for of contemporary school rooms. Constructed from powder-coated metal, it consists of 32 foam, numbered slots to securely cradle units. Designed with a locking metal door and a transparent acrylic window, CellGuard presents full visibility for straightforward monitoring and a Kensington lock receptacle for enhanced safety.
ClassDojo For Districts | New Expanded Options
ClassDojo for Districts presents new capabilities that give Ok–12 leaders larger visibility and perception throughout faculties—with out altering how academics and households already use the platform. These updates strengthen districtwide coordination and communication whereas conserving teacher-family relationships on the coronary heart of ClassDojo. The expanded platform introduces highly effective district-level capabilities in three core areas—visibility, communication, and insights—with much more options and enhancements rolling out within the months forward.
ClassVR | ClassVR Xcelerate and EduverseCTE
ClassVR Xcelerate and EduverseCTE are digital and augmented actuality (AR/VR) options for highschool, larger ed, and profession and technical schooling (CTE) applications. The ClassVR Xcelerate headset gives a full vary of spatial motion by means of six-degrees-of-freedom head and controller monitoring. An progressive 90° flip visor permits seamless transitions between immersive studying and real-world collaboration. The headset comes with EduverseCTE, ClassVR’s library of curriculum-aligned VR/AR content material that helps college students develop each comfortable expertise, and technical talents. Via real looking simulations, college students can apply teamwork, communication, and interview strategies and discover high-demand fields resembling healthcare, building, hospitality, and expert trades.
CTL | CTL Chromebook Care Course
The CTL Chromebook Care Course for college kids is a complete, Profession and Technical Schooling (CTE)-focused program designed to coach center and highschool college students to turn into CTL-certified Chromebook restore technicians. The course, supplied free to CTL clients and specializing in CTL-manufactured units, addresses rising calls for for expert IT professionals whereas selling know-how sustainability inside faculty districts. The CTL Chromebook Care Course is tailor-made for college kids in grades 8–12, establishing a structured, scholar technical help group.
Day of AI | AI Trivia Time
AI Trivia Time is an everyday classroom sport designed to show AI literacy right into a behavior college students take pleasure in and academics can naturally match into their day. AI Trivia Time is a mind break with a objective. Whether or not used as a warm-up, an exit ticket, a mini-lesson, or a enjoyable Friday ritual, academics and college students can dive into an everyday collection of brief, five-question, AI-themed quizzes designed to spark dialogue and reflection on what accountable AI use appears to be like like in apply. The sport works throughout grade ranges, topics, and schedules.
Discovery Schooling | Ok-5 Science Techbook & Ok–5 Social Research Necessities
Science Techbook and Social Research Necessities mix research-backed pedagogy with cutting-edge know-how and are complemented by updates throughout AI-driven personalization, career-connected studying, and extra. Science Techbook builds expertise whereas delivering three‑dimensional, phenomena‑pushed classes that seize scholar curiosity and reinforce scientific and cross-disciplinary studying. Social Research Necessities is an inquiry-based supplemental answer grounded within the C3 Framework, making it simple for academics to ship impactful classes in historical past, civics, geography, and economics.
Extron NAV E 222 USB-C and HDMI switching encoder
Including USB-C enter functionality and enter switching to the NAV Professional AV over IP Collection platform, this new Encoder gives choices to create high-performance streaming techniques. Enter switching modes are configurable as auto or guide. The encoder can energy a USB-C machine with as much as 100 watts utilizing the optionally available UPI 100 Energy Inserter. The NAV E 222 helps the AES67 audio over IP commonplace, facilitating integration with Extron DMP Plus DSPs or different IP-enabled audio elements.
Think about Studying | StudySync 2027 Version
The 2027 version of StudySync encompasses a restructured center faculty sequence constructed round deeper knowledge-building themes in addition to stronger fluency, vocabulary, and sentence composition scaffolds grounded within the science of studying. Educators in search of complete, standards-aligned options can now pair StudySync (6–12) with Dragonfly (Ok–5).
Ingenuity Works | All The Proper Kind
All The Proper Kind prepares college students for a world the place keyboard expertise are essential. The net typing platform is self-paced and requires minimal trainer instruction time, making it simple to combine into any classroom or homeschool setting. With participating classes and interactive challenges, college students construct velocity and accuracy at their very own tempo.
LG | CreateBoard TR3DQ
Constructing on the success of LG’s TR3DK technology of CreateBoard options, the TR3DQ show, accessible instantly in 55-, 65-, 75- and 86-inch fashions, is engineered to boost classroom engagement, collaboration and tutorial flexibility. As the latest addition to LG’s increasing CreateBoard lineup – designed to help faculties throughout a variety of wants and budgets – the TR3DQ delivers significant enhancements in processing velocity, contact and writing responsiveness, audio readability and ecosystem integration to help trendy Ok-12 and higher-education environments.
Logitech | MX Ink
MX Ink is the primary Blended Actuality (MR) stylus particularly designed for Meta Quest. A precision instrument with a well-known pen-like really feel, MX Ink permits customers to navigate, annotate and create freely throughout 2D areas like papers, desks, or whiteboards, in addition to immersive 3D environments. The pressure-sensitive tip of MX Ink permits pure writing and gaming motions, merging the tactile sensation of a bodily instrument with the limitless prospects of the digital inventive house.
McGraw Hill | Summit! and Soar!
McGraw Hill’s new core ELA curriculum for sixth by means of twelfth grades consists of Summit! for grades 6-8 and Soar! for grades 9-12. Constructed on the beforehand introduced Emerge! for Ok-5, these set up a complete research-based literacy program. Each use data-driven personalization to assist educators tailor instruction all through the training journey.
OWC | 8TB Envoy Extremely Thunderbolt 5 SSD
The brand new 8TB OWC Envoy Extremely Thunderbolt 5 SSD delivers unparalleled velocity, versatility, and portability for professionals and fanatics alike. Its options/advantages embody: greater than 6000MB/s, making it as much as 2x quicker than Thunderbolt 4 and USB4; presents probably the most velocity doable from Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, and USB4 machines; simply handles every day information wants for pro-level inventive tasks whereas matching inside storage efficiency; works with Macs, PCs, iPad Professionals, Chromebooks, and Floor units; bus-powered with built-in Thunderbolt cable; fanless, heat-dissipating aluminum design that’s crushproof, dustproof, and waterproof IP67 rated.
PBLWorks | PBL Train mission items for center and highschool
PBLWorks has added new Gold Customary Undertaking Based mostly Studying (PBL) items for highschool and elementary faculty grades. The brand new TEACH items for elementary and highschool embody tasks resembling “Pitch Good” for fourth and fifth grade social research by which college students turn into entrepreneurs, creating enterprise concepts that resolve actual issues of their communities. “Household Financials” is a ninth and tenth grade math mission by which college students mannequin financial savings and funding plans for group members utilizing linear and exponential capabilities. Every mission consists of classes with clear outlines and in-depth, step-by-step directions and sources to assist even novice academics execute the tasks with ease.
SchoolAI | AI Is not Changing Pondering
To know how academics are literally utilizing AI of their instruction, this examine examined greater than 23,000 SchoolAI Areas created in the course of the 2024–25 faculty 12 months throughout ELA, Math, Science, and Social Research. In SchoolAI Areas, academics, not the AI, design the training expertise. They provide the outline and prompts that information how Dot, the AI assistant, engages with college students. This makes Areas a singular window into how educators are selecting to combine AI into actual tutorial apply.
SCIVR | Immersive Studying Platform
SCIVR showcased their digital actuality all-in-one immersive platform for Center & Excessive College STEM and Profession Technical Teaching programs. SCIVR’s Immersive Studying Platform consists of interactive simulations for science, math, CTE, social research, all supplied in a number of languages. SCIVR works with Meta Quest or Pico VR headsets and presents hardware-agnostic Net-based units all beneath one website license, permitting limitless customers and units.
Smore and College Standing | Human Connection within the Age of AI: A Information to Ok–12 Communications
Human Connection within the Age of AI, a free book, gives methods for implementing communication practices that construct group, together with: Steps to help district, faculty, and classroom-level communication; examples for newsletters that carry households into faculty life; methods for embedding dialogue into messages; and insights on utilizing AI to help accessibility and translation with out dropping the human voice.
Socrait was named the winner of FETC’s Pitchfest 2.0, the progressive gamified startup competitors that put voting energy immediately into the palms of Ok-12 educators and know-how leaders attending the Way forward for Schooling Expertise Convention. Last outcomes have been decided utilizing a 50% viewers vote / 50% choose rating mannequin. When normalized and equally weighted, Socrait achieved the best total mixed rating, outperforming all different finalists. Socrait demonstrated the most effective total steadiness of viewers attraction and knowledgeable analysis, rating second with each viewers voters and the choose panel.
Studient | Motivention
Motivention by Studient makes use of the AIM Blueprint to assist college students within the backside quartile speed up their progress and construct confidence. The motivation science framework helps design an individualized path for progress, integrating motivation science to rebuild college students’ sense of perception, effort and momentum by means of structured recognition, peer connection and private objective.
Telycam | Combine One
Combine One is an all-in-one video manufacturing answer designed to develop and elevate the Telycam PTZ ecosystem. Objective-built for PTZ-centric workflows, Combine One combines an encoder, decoder, monitor, video switcher, and PTZ controller inside a single, compact unit – giving creators a robust but intuitive instrument for reside streaming, podcasting, {and professional} content material manufacturing. Constructed on trade requirements and trendy AV-over-IP structure, Combine One presents a sublime, scalable various to conventional hardware-heavy manufacturing setups.
At this 12 months’s FETC convention, ViewSonic spotlighted the ViewSonic schooling software program suite: an entire ecosystem that brings collectively myViewBoard for interactive classes, AirSync for versatile wi-fi screensharing, and ClassSwift for immediate, on-the-fly evaluation. Collectively, these instruments create a seamless platform for educating, collaboration, and engagement, serving to educators save time, personalize studying, and hold college students actively engaged.
