According to the Google blog page linked below, there are now seven million students using Google applications as part of their formal educational experience (including my Son). We can anticipate that this generation will expect their data to be held in the cloud and accessible from everywhere, including their mobile phone I am guessing.
http://tinyurl.com/y8fpffm
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Colorado, Iowa and Oregon have all announced that all their state schools are going to use google apps. http://tinyurl.com/252xs7w
While this is going to save quite a lot of cash, the really interesting thing will be to see how they use some of the collaborative elements of google docs, chat and video in teaching and learning.