FETC 2026 returned to Orlando this January, and the conference didn’t disappoint. New York EdTech Director Alana Winnick and her students opened the conference with an inspiring keynote, setting a student-centered tone that resonated through every session and across the Expo floor.
Below is a snapshot of the innovations on display, featuring advancements in AI and VR, personalized curricula, EDLA-certified interactive displays, and more. These are not reviews or endorsements, but a showcase of education-friendly items, platforms, and more that we think might be noteworthy for you.
BenQ | RP05 Interactive Display
The new AI-ready RP05 Interactive Display joins the RP04, delivering smarter and faster performance and intuitive tools to support interactive teaching. The EDLA-certified RP Series makes it easy to build dynamic lessons with responsive touch, whiteboarding, multi-window views, and app integration.
CellGuard | Cell Phone Storage Cabinet
The CellGuard Cell Phone Storage Cabinet is engineered to meet the rigorous demands of modern classrooms. Constructed from powder-coated steel, it includes 32 foam, numbered slots to securely cradle devices. Designed with a locking steel door and a clear acrylic window, CellGuard offers full visibility for easy monitoring and a Kensington lock receptacle for enhanced security.
ClassDojo For Districts | New Expanded Features
ClassDojo for Districts offers new capabilities that give K–12 leaders greater visibility and insight across schools—without changing how teachers and families already use the platform. These updates strengthen districtwide coordination and communication while keeping teacher-family relationships at the heart of ClassDojo. The expanded platform introduces powerful district-level capabilities in three core areas—visibility, communication, and insights—with even more features and enhancements rolling out in the months ahead.
ClassVR | ClassVR Xcelerate and EduverseCTE
ClassVR Xcelerate and EduverseCTE are virtual and augmented reality (AR/VR) solutions for high school, higher ed, and career and technical education (CTE) programs. The ClassVR Xcelerate headset provides a full range of spatial movement through six-degrees-of-freedom head and controller tracking. An innovative 90° flip visor enables seamless transitions between immersive learning and real-world collaboration. The headset comes with EduverseCTE, ClassVR’s library of curriculum-aligned VR/AR content that helps students develop both soft skills, and technical abilities. Through realistic simulations, students can practice teamwork, communication, and interview techniques and explore high-demand fields such as healthcare, construction, hospitality, and skilled trades.
CTL | CTL Chromebook Care Course
The CTL Chromebook Care Course for students is a comprehensive, Career and Technical Education (CTE)-focused program designed to train middle and high school students to become CTL-certified Chromebook repair technicians. The course, offered free to CTL customers and focusing on CTL-manufactured devices, addresses growing demands for skilled IT professionals while promoting technology sustainability within school districts. The CTL Chromebook Care Course is tailored for students in grades 8–12, establishing a structured, student technical support team.
Day of AI | AI Trivia Time
AI Trivia Time is a regular classroom game designed to turn AI literacy into a habit students enjoy and teachers can naturally fit into their day. AI Trivia Time is a brain break with a purpose. Whether used as a warm-up, an exit ticket, a mini-lesson, or a fun Friday ritual, teachers and students can dive into a regular series of short, five-question, AI-themed quizzes designed to spark discussion and reflection on what responsible AI use looks like in practice. The game works across grade levels, subjects, and schedules.
Discovery Education | K-5 Science Techbook & K–5 Social Studies Essentials
Science Techbook and Social Studies Essentials blend research-backed pedagogy with cutting-edge technology and are complemented by updates across AI-driven personalization, career-connected learning, and more. Science Techbook builds skills while delivering three‑dimensional, phenomena‑driven lessons that capture student interest and reinforce scientific and cross-disciplinary learning. Social Studies Essentials is an inquiry-based supplemental solution grounded in the C3 Framework, making it easy for teachers to deliver impactful lessons in history, civics, geography, and economics.
Extron NAV E 222 USB-C and HDMI switching encoder
Adding USB-C input capability and input switching to the NAV Pro AV over IP Series platform, this new Encoder provides options to create high-performance streaming systems. Input switching modes are configurable as auto or manual. The encoder can power a USB-C device with up to 100 watts using the optional UPI 100 Power Inserter. The NAV E 222 supports the AES67 audio over IP standard, facilitating integration with Extron DMP Plus DSPs or other IP-enabled audio components.
Imagine Learning | StudySync 2027 Edition
The 2027 edition of StudySync features a restructured middle school sequence built around deeper knowledge-building themes as well as stronger fluency, vocabulary, and sentence composition scaffolds grounded in the science of reading. Educators seeking comprehensive, standards-aligned solutions can now pair StudySync (6–12) with Dragonfly (K–5).
Ingenuity Works | All The Right Type
All The Right Type prepares students for a world where keyboard skills are crucial. The online typing platform is self-paced and requires minimal teacher instruction time, making it easy to integrate into any classroom or homeschool setting. With engaging lessons and interactive challenges, students build speed and accuracy at their own pace.
LG | CreateBoard TR3DQ
Building on the success of LG’s TR3DK generation of CreateBoard solutions, the TR3DQ display, available immediately in 55-, 65-, 75- and 86-inch models, is engineered to enhance classroom engagement, collaboration and instructional flexibility. As the newest addition to LG’s expanding CreateBoard lineup – designed to support schools across a wide range of needs and budgets – the TR3DQ delivers meaningful improvements in processing speed, touch and writing responsiveness, audio clarity and ecosystem integration to support modern K-12 and higher-education environments.
Logitech | MX Ink
MX Ink is the first Mixed Reality (MR) stylus specifically designed for Meta Quest. A precision tool with a familiar pen-like feel, MX Ink allows users to navigate, annotate and create freely across 2D spaces like papers, desks, or whiteboards, as well as immersive 3D environments. The pressure-sensitive tip of MX Ink enables natural writing and gaming motions, merging the tactile sensation of a physical tool with the limitless possibilities of the virtual creative space.
McGraw Hill | Summit! and Soar!
McGraw Hill's new core ELA curriculum for 6th through 12th grades includes Summit! for grades 6-8 and Soar! for grades 9-12. Built on the previously announced Emerge! for K-5, these establish a comprehensive research-based literacy program. Both use data-driven personalization to help educators tailor instruction throughout the learning journey.
OWC | 8TB Envoy Ultra Thunderbolt 5 SSD
The new 8TB OWC Envoy Ultra Thunderbolt 5 SSD delivers unparalleled speed, versatility, and portability for professionals and enthusiasts alike. Its features/benefits include: more than 6000MB/s, making it up to 2x faster than Thunderbolt 4 and USB4; offers the most speed possible from Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, and USB4 machines; easily handles daily data needs for pro-level creative projects while matching internal storage performance; works with Macs, PCs, iPad Pros, Chromebooks, and Surface devices; bus-powered with built-in Thunderbolt cable; fanless, heat-dissipating aluminum design that is crushproof, dustproof, and waterproof IP67 rated.
PBLWorks | PBL Teach project units for middle and high school
PBLWorks has added new Gold Standard Project Based Learning (PBL) units for high school and elementary school grades. The new TEACH units for elementary and high school include projects such as “Pitch Perfect” for fourth and fifth grade social studies in which students become entrepreneurs, creating business ideas that solve real problems in their communities. “Family Financials” is a 9th and 10th grade math project in which students model savings and investment plans for community members using linear and exponential functions. Each project includes lessons with clear outlines and in-depth, step-by-step instructions and resources to help even novice teachers execute the projects with ease.
SchoolAI | AI Isn't Replacing Thinking
To understand how teachers are actually using AI in their instruction, this study examined more than 23,000 SchoolAI Spaces created during the 2024–25 school year across ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies. In SchoolAI Spaces, teachers, not the AI, design the learning experience. They supply the description and prompts that guide how Dot, the AI assistant, engages with students. This makes Spaces a unique window into how educators are choosing to integrate AI into real instructional practice.
Smore and School Status | Human Connection in the Age of AI: A Guide to K–12 Communications
Human Connection in the Age of AI, a free ebook, provides strategies for implementing communication practices that build community, including: Steps to support district, school, and classroom-level communication; examples for newsletters that bring families into school life; strategies for embedding dialogue into messages; and insights on using AI to support accessibility and translation without losing the human voice.
Socrait was named the winner of FETC's Pitchfest 2.0, the innovative gamified startup competition that put voting power directly into the hands of K-12 educators and technology leaders attending the Future of Education Technology Conference. Final results were determined using a 50% audience vote / 50% judge score model. When normalized and equally weighted, Socrait achieved the highest overall combined score, outperforming all other finalists. Socrait demonstrated the best overall balance of audience appeal and expert evaluation, ranking second with both audience voters and the judge panel.
Studient | Motivention
Motivention by Studient utilizes the AIM Blueprint to help students in the bottom quartile accelerate their progress and build confidence. The motivation science framework helps design an individualized path for growth, integrating motivation science to rebuild students’ sense of belief, effort and momentum through structured recognition, peer connection and personal purpose.
Telycam | Mix One
Mix One is an all-in-one video production solution designed to expand and elevate the Telycam PTZ ecosystem. Purpose-built for PTZ-centric workflows, Mix One combines an encoder, decoder, monitor, video switcher, and PTZ controller within a single, compact unit – giving creators a powerful yet intuitive tool for live streaming, podcasting, and professional content production. Built on industry standards and modern AV-over-IP architecture, Mix One offers an elegant, scalable alternative to traditional hardware-heavy production setups.
At this year's FETC conference, ViewSonic spotlighted the ViewSonic education software suite: a complete ecosystem that brings together myViewBoard for interactive lessons, AirSync for versatile wireless screensharing, and ClassSwift for instant, on-the-fly assessment. Together, these tools create a seamless platform for teaching, collaboration, and engagement, helping educators save time, personalize learning, and keep students actively engaged.
