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Abelson,

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2013

from

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Learning

Portal

(2012).

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January

2013

from

http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/content/whatappinventor.html
Bloomberg Businessweek (2012). Can Android Market Catch Up to the App Store? Retrieved 10
January 2013 from http://www.businessweek.com/stories/20091026/canandroidmarketcatch
uptotheappstore
King, R. (2012). Turning Girls into Tech Entrepreneurs with a Single App. Bloomberg Business Week
2012. Retrieved 28 February 2013 from http://www.businessweek.com/technology/turninggirls
intotechentrepreneurswithasingleapp02062012.html
Kirkpatrick, M. (2010). 5 Big Questions About Google's New App Inventor. Retrieved 10 January 2013
from http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/5_big_questions_about_googles_app_inventor.php
Lohr, S. (2010). Googles DoItYourself App Creation Software. Retrieved 10 January 2013 from
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/technology/12google.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
MIT

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Mobile

Learning,

(2011).

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2012

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StarLogo TNG (2012). MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program. Retrieved 28 February 2013 from
http://education.mit.edu/projects/starlogotng.
Open Blocks (2012). MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program. Retrieved 28 February 2013 from
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2012

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Brennan, K. (2009). ScratchEd: an online community for scratch educators. In A. Dimitracopoulou, C.
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O'Malley, D. Suthers & P. Reimann (Eds.). Proceedings of the 9 International Conference on

Computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL'09), (Vol. 2 ) International Society of the Learning
Sciences, (pp. 7678).
Dehnadi, S., Bornat, R., & Adams, R. (2009). Metaanalysis of the effect of consistency on success in
early learning of programming. 21st Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest
Group (p. 10pp).
Hsu, Y.C., Rice, K., & Dawley, L. (2012). Empowering educators with Google's Android App Inventor:

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An online workshop in mobile app design. British Journal of Educational Technology, 43(1) E1E5.
Morreli, R., de Lanerolle, T., Lake, P., Limardo, N., Tamotsu, E., & Uche, C. (2011). Can Android App
Inventor bring Computational Thinking to K12? Proceedings of the 34th SIGCSE Technical
Symposium on Computer science education, March 912, 2011, USA: DallasTexas.
Resnick, M., Maloney, J., MonroyHernndez, A., Rusk, N., Eastmond, E., Brennan, K., Millner, A.,
Rosenbaum, E., Silver, J., Silverman, B., & Kafai, Y. (2009). Scratch: programming for all. Commun.
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