Schools have been adopting iPads with lightning speed -- more than 1.5 million have already been distributed to students, a mere two years after the original iPad launch. But beyond Apple's influence in education, the high-profile tablet appears to be the poster child for a different trend.

Call it the consumerization of education technology.

What the iPad's rapid incursion into the classroom masks is that the walls that used to slow new instructional technology's adoption in education are falling. And when walls fall, what's inside can spill out in any one of several directions...

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