SMS Service in Schools. Who Would’ve Thought?

You’ve heard about an SMS service to keep kids in school. Now there’s texting to help kids with school. And it could well be worth it…

We’ve all read about teachers using an SMS service to inform parents when their kids do not attend school or perform badly. Now, however, one professor has taken text messaging one step further that allows his students to text in class, while the lesson is in progress.

It’s All About Efficient Communication

How many of us were, at one stage or another, afraid to put our hands up at school out of fear of being laughed at for asking an inappropriate question? Many of us know what that feels like. But thanks to Professor Ephraim McLean at Georgia State University, the adults of tomorrow might not have to suffer that inconvenience. “It doesn’t make sense to fight texting because we know they’re going to do it anyway,” McDonald said, as reported on ajc.com.

The truth is that his SMS service, that allows students to anonymously text questions to a dedicated short code and scrolls them (the questions) on a screen, might just revolutionise the way classes are run in school. The benefit of this type of service is that students:

• Are able to get the information they require much faster
• Could, through this SMS service, ask a question that others never considered
• Etc.

Naturally one might be inclined to ask whether such an SMS service won’t effectively distract students from their work. “It isn’t distracting,” said senior student Stephanie Ifendu.

So How Does it Work?

While insight into the technology behind Professor McDonald’s SMS service wasn’t made public, one could easily imagine that, aside from a dedicated short code, it involves an API – one that could easily be integrated into the system used to scroll the text on the screen. Additionally, the API wouldn’t necessarily have to support two-way messaging. Then again, it could be as simple as having all incoming messages forwarded to an email address which is monitored by a resident software process that ultimately uses as java script to convert messages to the scrolling final product.

If you think you could implement SMS in a similar way, simply navigate to our SMS service page.

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