One of the best part about teaching kids technology is realizing, we're really preparing them for jobs that haven't even been invented yet. I consider this a "best", because as teachers, that frees us to teach "how to think", not "what to know". Even though I know a fair amount about programming and have been playing around with Alice, Scratch and Kodu for awhile, each lab session, I learn something new, and I credit the kids and their "open thinking" for this. Thanks to everyone for making this happen!

Winding up this school year, I plan to add a new application to the mix to teach this coming fall -- MIT's App Inventor.  A free Android mobile phone application development environment for beginners, MIT took over this project from Google late 2011. You'll see a fair amount of similarities between it and Scratch, and bringing it into the Coder Dojo lab will let us expand the lesson to touch screen mobile technology. We're fast approaching mobile connectivity out pacing wired connectivity; worldwide, mobile devices represent 78% of total internet access. And, we're beginning to see a generation of young technology users who don't know what a mouse is ;)