During the 2009 calendar year, there were more than 1.5 trillion text messages reported on carriers’ networks.  Wireless subscribers are also sending more pictures and other multimedia messages with their mobile devices—more than 24.2 billion MMS messages were reported for the last half of 2009. That’s more than double the number from the previous year, when only 9.3 billion were reported for the last half of 2008.  

But we ban mobiles from our schools and prohibit text messaging.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Educating future cogs in the wheel, one spoke at a time…