Check it out: Ed Week ran a
feature article on App Inventor and the power of teaching students how to build mobile apps. Many excellent programs are described in the article, including
Youth APPLab,
Technovation,
Youth Radio, and others. My favorite quote is from an eighth grade girl: "These programs expand your view on careers like computer science and engineering and show the fun in them." This is what we are all about at the MIT Center for Mobile Learning!
Read the article here:
http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2012/06/13/03mobile.h05.html