Key points:
- Explore the infinite realms of edtech at FETC 2025
- How AI can unleash student curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking
- 3 tips to authentically engage students in real-world STEM learning
- For more news on FETC, visit eSN’s LIVE@FETC 2025 hub

At the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC), forward-thinking educators and edtech leaders gather to brainstorm strategies and promote innovations that transform and teaching and learning in their classrooms, schools, and districts.
Running Jan. 14-17, 2025, in Orlando, the annual conference looks to the future of edtech’s role in teaching and learning is full of inspiring keynotes, information-packed sessions, dynamic exhibit hall presentations, and more.
Session tracks focus on topics and insights relevant to various K-12 leadership titles: district leaders, school leaders, classroom leaders, IT leaders, coach leaders, inclusion leaders, esports leaders, and library leaders.
Here’s a look at just a few of the sessions on tap:
1. Best Practices for an AI Infused Classroom: Our conversation surrounding AI must evolve beyond mere usage. Instead, we must delve into the nuanced characteristics of various Large Language Models (LLMs) and student-facing AI to discern how their unique capabilities can be leveraged to achieve diverse educational objectives. By understanding the strengths and limitations of each LLM, we can strategically deploy them to optimize learning outcomes, personalize instruction, and foster critical thinking and creativity in our students.
(January 15; 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.; South 320GH)
- Children learn best on paper: We need better technology, not less of it - July 13, 2026
- In districts, reaching readiness, retention, and success - March 5, 2026
- AI use is on the rise, but is guidance keeping pace? - January 2, 2026
