Really, they can go some kind of far with it, because it sometimes will be a really good tool, because it's really can help the students renteract with what they are learning while they are liking what they do at home.

I believe 100% that online chating is a very effective way in the classroom, because they can reinteract with one another and talk about important things in the process and plus, its a really good tool to have also.

Well with text-messeaging, if you are in the middle of something and you have to talk to that person ASAP, then you can just text message them...and not have to step out of the room, i guess it depends where you are.

Its just a new way of doing certain things

Really no it doesn't, because I am a vdieo game person so I play video games to ease my mind off of what I am doing for that moment, i'm not really thinking about doing anything else. Really theres not much skill you can gain from video gameing in my book, i sort of agree with the article in some respect of it, and I would let my kids play video games but not to much untill they finsih there homework that is because thats a fun time where you can get away from school work for awhile.