On Monday, Jan. 12, at 9 a.m., Alana Winnick, educational technology director for New York’s Pocantico Hills Central School District and founder of Students for Innovation, will share her tips for creating a school culture that allows students to feel seen and heard and to play a role in shaping their own education. After the session, Winnick will be signing 200 copies of her book, The Generative Age.
On Tuesday, Jan. 13, at 8 a.m., Tech Share LIVE! returns to FETC with a high-energy panel showcasing the latest in educational technology, including artificial intelligence, game-based learning, robotics, video creation tools and more. The session will include demonstrations and commentary on these ed tech tools, hosted by Adam Bellow, CEO and co-founder of the immersive gaming platform Breakout EDU; Leslie Fisher, director of lesliefisher.com; and Adam Phyall III, director of professional learning and leadership at All4Ed.
FETC Exhibit Hall Offers Hands-On Activities
The FETC Expo Hall gives attendees the opportunity to roll up their sleeves and try out some of these new technologies for themselves. In the expo hall’s center court, the new 3D printing/makerspace will offer six stations of hands-on activities to bolster STEM skills. Also new in the center court this year is a hands-on robotics lab that shows attendees how to build, code and test classroom robots.
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CDW’s esports arena, where attendees can experience competitive play, returns this year with live matches and demonstrations that show how esports can transform student engagement.
FETC Sessions Address Trending Topics and Tech in K–12 Education
The conference agenda features hundreds of sessions covering everything from cybersecurity and emerging technologies to workforce development and digital literacy. Here are a few that are notable:
- “Solving for Service at Scale: Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s Journey to Unified Service Delivery”
- “From Classroom to Server Room: Bridging Instructional Technology and IT for Better Learning Outcomes”
- “Empowering Classrooms with AI: Strategies for Critical Thinking”
- “Defend Your District from Cyber Threats-Lessons Learned from Phishing 500,000 Faculty, Staff & Students”
- “Beyond the Breach: AI-Powered Cybersecurity & Agentic Efficiency for Education Leaders”
- “The Modern Learning Ecosystem: Workforce Development, CTE Innovation, and AI for Next-Gen Classrooms”
- “AI Literacy in the Discussion of Workforce Development”
- “The Connected Classroom: Brainstorming and Building with Gemini”
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