The 2016 Conference on Pen and Touch Technology in Education was the tenth annual iteration of this annual event. It was a special pleasure for me to chair the conference at Brown, where I also organized a workshop on pen computing in the spring of 2007 (see Fig. 1), the forerunner of WIPTTE (now renamed CPTTE). Some of this year’s speakers and attendees participated in that first workshop. This year’s conference combined both researchers and educators exchanging best practices. The conference featured the usual CPTTE blend of keynote speakers, research papers, presentations by practicing teachers about techniques they have found worthwhile in the classroom, and hands-on You-Try-It sessions. Participants also had ample opportunities to connect with one another to explore ideas, research applications, and practices, allowing for a stimulating cross-pollination between members of this diverse community.

Microsoft continues to dominate the field with its offering of hardware (Surface tablets and the large Surface Hubs); platform support for digital ink, pen, and touch interaction; and popular applications such as the OneNote family. Other manufacturers such as Samsung, Fujitsu, and Wacom continue to expand their product offerings, and even Apple, who eschewed the pen under Steve Job’s leadership, has finally started offering the Apple Pencil for the iPad Pro models. Classroom adoption of tablets grows slowly but steadily but has not yet hit the knee of what we all still hope will be an exponential growth curve. As styli become more prevalent, there will be greater interest in expanding the minimalist interaction vocabulary popularized by the iPhone and its competitors (tap, swipe, pinch-zoom) by adding digital ink and character, gesture, and sketch recognition as first-class citizens. It is encouraging to see companies like Adobe putting increasing emphasis on tablets rather than just desktops. Our CPTTE keynoters and speakers, along with the resulting papers in this manuscript, provide us with inspiration and vision so we can continue building interest and community in this still young field. We are grateful to the many sponsors who have so generously funded us this year and without whom this whole affair would have been impossible. Continuing their support from WIPTTE 2015 (and previous years) are Microsoft (Windows,