Did you hear that over 20 million students participated in the recent Code.org sponsored "hour of code" project? And, lots going on for both Alice and Kodu. Alice.org has changed their help page hosting (new url address). And Microsoft is designing exciting ways to program Kodu games on tablets and smartphones using their proprietary software "TouchDevelop". One of my bigger concerns about the use of tablets in the schools is that device limitations (both inherent and school enforced) tend to encourage students to interact with tech more as consumers than as developers. So, I'm glad to see Kodu is breaking barriers to expand into tablet compatibility, as has MIT's Media Lab App Inventor. Alice and Scratch (even 2.0) are not yet mobile device compatible, which I'm finding more and more a limitation when I guest teach in computer labs. T.H.E Journal Magazine forecasts BYOD and Social Media learning tools as the top 2014 ed tech trends, which will likely encourage school systems to focus less on desktop/laptop computing and more on thin client/mobile devices in computer labs. This may lead to mixed results for teaching computer programming, often reliant on workstations with greater memory and graphical capacity than Chromebooks, tablets, and smartphones support. But, 20 million students represented is hard to ignore, so the press is on for the ed development world to step up and build this kind of compatibility in to how we teach tech.