FETC 2025 (Future of Education Technology Conference) is held on January 14-17 in Orlando, Florida.
At Apple Education, we’re excited to be part of FETC 2025 and look forward to sharing this journey with you. Apple Education’s dedicated visionary leaders will guide interactive sessions on diverse topics and provide you with great ideas, tools, and resources.
Connect with the Apple Team—learn, explore, and be inspired.
Explore content and follow-up resources from the sessions below. A detailed daily session schedule is available.
On the Mainstage
Join us at the South Hall Keynote Room to discuss how to prepare students for success in the classroom, the workplace, and beyond. We'll look at the role of technology in developing future-ready skills, and how to invest in your educators to ensure they have the resources they need.
Shape Tomorrow’s Skills, Today
Thursday, January 16 | 1:30–2:15 p.m.
As new technologies catalyze changes in the workplace, learning environments are impacted as well. Students must build and develop new skills to succeed in the classroom and beyond. And it’s more important than ever to empower educators to teach those skills. Join Apple to discuss how to invest in your educators so they have the technology and tools needed to engage, instruct, and assess students so they thrive today and into the future.
In the Apple Education Classroom
Join us from Wednesday through Friday in rooms S210 D and S210 E for interactive sessions focused on creatively engaging all learners, and explore how leaders create a culture of innovation on their campuses.
Room S210 D
Building Educator Capacity
Educators are the foundation of your learning community — and ensuring that they have the tools and resources they need is critical. How do you support all your educators to do their best work? Join us to explore how the combination of effective technology, a supportive community, and engaging professional development can support and empower educators at every confidence level. And hear from a panel of educators about how they put this into action.
Innovation Showcase by Apple Distinguished Schools
Join this panel discussion to hear from visionary school leaders at Apple Distinguished Schools who will share examples of how they inspire and impact teaching and learning in innovative ways in a technology rich environment. You’ll also get the opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations and network with each other.
Accessibility and Apple: Building a More Inclusive Classroom
Given the range of learning styles and abilities of students today, educators need technology and resources to accommodate and personalize learning. Apple builds accessibility features into every product, so everyone can use them in ways that work best for them. Join us for an interactive learning session to learn about built-in accessibility features on iPad.
Video Storytelling for Impact: Engage, Inspire, and Align Your Community
As a leader, communicating effectively is one of the most important things you do. The best communication uses the power of storytelling to help people get excited about your school, your classroom, and student learning. Join Apple in an interactive session that unlocks the potential of video storytelling in your school. Discover practical strategies for leaders, teachers, and students to craft compelling narratives, keep stakeholders informed, and capture moments that resonate deeply with your community.
What’s New for IT from Apple
Apple is committed to supporting your vision for technology at scale. Join us to discuss the latest products and platform changes from Apple, including what’s new for Managed Apple IDs, new deployment options, and management features for macOS and iPadOS.
Room S210 E
Why Apple in Education: Empowering Active Learners
Learning should be engaging, empowering, and fun — igniting a sense of joy, excitement, and possibility. This session will explore how Apple has been working with leaders, educators, and school communities from the beginning to build learning experiences to support this type of learning. And you’ll get to experience how Apple technology is designed with active learning in mind, helping students build critical skills by being more engaged in their own learning process.
Apple Intelligence for Education: A New Era of Innovation
Learn how a new era of innovation in education is here, transforming what leaders, educators, and students can do with Apple products — and what Apple products can do for them. This session is designed to help school leaders and educators navigate how Apple Intelligence fits into their school and learning environments privately and securely. Explore how Apple Intelligence seamlessly integrates into system experiences and apps used every day, and how new tools such as Writing Tools, Image Playground, and Transcripts use personal context to deliver intelligence that’s useful and relevant, enhancing productivity and creativity.
Ensuring Equitable Access: Supporting the Success of All Learners
Given the range of learning styles and abilities of students today, equity of access has never been more important. But to personalize learning for all students, educators need effective technology and resources. Join us to explore best practices for supporting all learners — and see how Apple’s built-in tools and features allow everyone to use technology in ways that work best for them.
- Accessibility on iPad
- Accessibility area in the Forum
- 30 Accessibility Tips for iPad
- 30 Accessibility Tips for Mac
- Teaching with iPad Essentials for Bilingual Learners
- Empowering Inclusive Classrooms: Utilizing iPad Translation Tools
- Assistive Touch: A Magic Dot for Learners
- Turn Classroom Handouts into Interactive Documents in Seconds
- Quick Conversations around Accessibility on iPad
Apple & Seesaw: Creating Connected and Inclusive Literacy Instruction
Empower students and teachers with flexible tools that unlock the ability to teach, assess, and personalize the learning experience where, when and how they want to. Join Apple and Seesaw to discuss important topics facing school administrators today and the positive impact the right technology can have on a school community and student achievement.
Apple & Kahoot!: Engaging Learners with Fun and Inclusive Assessment
Kahoot! introduces game-based learning, transforming the traditional classroom experience. With its unique features on iPadOS and iOS, Kahoot! empowers teachers to create interactive and dynamic learning environments. In this session, move beyond classroom trivia and utilize Kahoot! to revise and reinforce class material, introduce new subjects and topics, and foster meaningful discussions among students.
Engaging Early Learners with Creativity
What do you expect learning to look like for your youngest students? And how can technology play a role? Join us for a discussion around how the use of technology should be intentional and natural, as well as age appropriate to meet the abilities of each learner. Alongside Apple Distinguished Educators, you’ll explore how iPad can help your youngest students communicate, create, and learn at their own pace.
- Streamline Workflows for Early Learners Using Emoji Templates
- Making Sticker Books with Photos and Keynote
- STEAM Activities for Little Learners
- Using the iPad to Equalize Students' Engagement with Text
- Creative Activities for Early Learners
- Apple Distinguished Educators
Deploying Apple in Education
Join us to discuss best practices for deploying Apple in both one-to-one and shared-use environments. We’ll walk through zero-touch deployment, device configuration, federated authentication, managing software updates, and strategies for managing both institution-owned and user-owned Apple devices.
Attach up to 5 files which will be available for other members to download.