This paper is useful insofar as it surveys quite a bit of work on the use of text-messaging by teens and the potential uses of text-messaging in the classroom. I wish, though, that it had been sharper in its analysis, questioning (for example) whether a study of messages by 10 teenagers in the United Kingdom really showed (as claimed) that "teenagers' texts are not written in an unintelligible teen code," or whether we should really believe that "there were fewer incidents of textish in text messages than in the German-language daily newspapers." Certainly we could agree with the authors that "a thoughtful look at current school and district level policies related to mobile phones is needed" but we would probably not have had to do as much reading to reach this conclusion. Anyhow, this is the bets paper in a pretty light current issue of the Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology, just out.
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