What if you had a virtual assistant who could do tasks for you and free up your time? Science fiction has become reality. You do! Lots of artificial intelligence tools can help you with tedious tasks like writing emails, providing feedback, and creating teaching resources. Learn about them -- and how to use them to make time for what matters most -- in this session.  FETC Workshops require an additional registration fee or premium registration. All workshops are BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for hands on participation.

Educators, learn how to make the most of your time at FETC building technology skills, learning from experts and collaborating with your new professional learning community. Now is the time to dive into topics that interest Educators the most at FETC 2024! Learn how to navigate a collection of sessions and events specifically designed for k-12 teachers of all content and curriculum areas. This session's focus will be on networking with peers and strategizing to make the most of numerous educator sessions and conference events.

Worksheets have been embedded in classrooms for years and years. They’re ready to use and easy to grade. But we want to do better than giving students photocopies, right? We want to encourage better learning, creativity, personality, and fun? Let’s go from worksheet to WOW. This session will provide practical ideas for upgrading your worksheets.  FETC Workshops require an additional registration fee or premium registration. All workshops are BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for hands on participation.

FETC is hosting a “Meet the Authors” Booth in the Expo Hall in the Orange County Convention Center. Come meet authors of best-selling education technology books, take selfies, ask questions, purchase books, get your books signed, and discuss hot topics. This unique experience connects authors and audience in a collaborative environment where you can ask questions and get solutions to educational technology issues.

AI is here, and it’s already impacting classrooms. How can it be used responsibly and ethically -- by teachers and by students? What should we be careful about? How can we teach for our students’ future -- while also fulfilling today’s goals and objectives? This session gives you suggestions and topics to consider to help you set your classroom up for success -- for you and for your students.

Class doesn’t have to be confined to the four walls of the classroom. Video calls and on-demand virtual field trips can connect your students to people, places, experts, and other cultures and viewpoints. You’ll learn how!

How can we help students do deep, meaningful learning? For one, let's help them think and work like authors. Learn 15 ways to help students publish their work -- and how Book Creator can help.

AI assistants like ChatGPT can help you level up your teaching practice. In this session, you’ll find several ways that AI tools can upgrade teaching and learning in your classroom. After this session, your students will be able to do deeper learning without lots of extra time and effort on the part of the teacher. Better teaching. Better learning. Less time.

Let’s face it, artificial intelligence is going to touch our students’ careers and lives in some way in the coming years. Let’s help them prepare for it -- even if we can’t see it yet. In this session, we’ll do our best “futurecasting,” identifying what might be coming so we can make adjustments to teaching and learning today so we’re all prepared.

In this highly interactive and dynamic session, we will take attendees through a design process focused on effective technology usage. Our activities will support a focus on creativity, curation, voice, collaboration, and assessment. We will look at sustainable ways to use technology to support higher-order thinking and learning. FETC Workshops require an additional registration fee or premium registration.