R u learning? Health educator experiments with using text messaging to teach
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 13:21
in Psychology & Sociology
Most parents hate text messaging. Adults find it annoying because teenagers text constantly - during dinner, in class, while they are doing homework, while the parent is trying to talk to them. Judith Cornelius, assistant professor of nursing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, sees texting differently. She thinks that text messaging might, just might, be the way to get teenagers to really listen to vital information.