Forum participation via cell phone In the future, learners will use cell phones to participate in threaded discussion forums. Instructors and students will use cell phone web browsers to navigate and read threads. Text-to-voice software will read threads to users, giving options such as press 1 to reply, press 2 to hear next message, press 3 to hear previous message, etc. Teachers and learners will use cell phone text message capabilities or voice-to-text software to dictate the thread content. The latter concept requires voice-to-text technology to improve. For students who prefer it or who don’t have a computer, this technology has the potential to provide more flexibility for learning. ClearTXT is a good example of a company that has already started working in this direction. However, voice recognition software still needs to be dramatically improved.