It was a public-friendly showcase of the rapid shift toward more digital learning opportunities in schools, an area where many adult educators are starting to accept what their students have known for years: Technology can't be suppressed, and it has the capability to change the learning experience in ways that haven't even been imagined yet. On Wednesday, a state-level Digital Learning Advisory Council released recommendations that encouraged more online collaboration and technology in Wisconsin's public schools.

That's a different tone from even just a few years ago, when administrators at many districts were still confiscating cellphones from students who surreptitiously tried to use them in class.

Rather than top-down deployments of devices every few years en masse, I'd love to see schools like ours take more of a hybrid model.

Of course, this means relying on differing standards of production (not everyone will have Pages or Word or Open Office depending on their platform), but web apps such as our Google accounts, will more-than-allow for us to bridge those gaps.

My friends in "the corporate world" are already going through this process of adjusting to a world of BYOD instead of issued Blackberry's and Dell laptops. It's just a matter of time before we do the same.