Tech-savvy Griever Pillows

"There's been a huge outpouring of emoticons."

"Miss Rogers told me I have a personal 'cloud' to store knowledge in."

'I've told you it's not the old pencil and paper battleships.'

Mozart on a computer,

"How can I be a lead learner without the technology needed to lead?"

"We hardly ever intercept hard copy notes anymore, Stanley."

"Knapsack? It's a solar-powered, bluetooth, Wi-Fi, self-charging, two shoulder GenPak with smartphone charger and GPS."

'Your parents are way too overprotective.'

Halloween Selfie

"A virus ate my homework."

"Sure, this camp has swimming, games, fishing, horseback riding and rock climbing. But, does it have Wi-Fi?"

'My teacher said my penmanship has really improved since I started doing my homework on an inkjet printer.'

"So you can tweet. That's why you have to learn the alphabet."

'The batteries in my calculator just died. Good thing I kept the instructions on how to count on my fingers.'

"Some fine day, my son, all this will be yours."

'This app tells me how near my friends are...'

"The battle of Gettysburg? Uh. . . let me check my civil war app."

"Tell me when it's all cyber warfare, and I'll enlist!"

"You go pillage. I can loot from here."

Teacher removes 'School Paper' sign and replaces it with 'School Blog' sign.

"Hang on. . . I think I've got an app for that."

"I wish you people would just read the blog."

'When the school upgraded its operating system, for the third time, I upgraded my headache medicine from over-the-counter to prescription strength.'

Childhood Screen Addict

"No textbooks. I'm strictly Web-fed."

"Excuse me, it's my reminder to get a life."

'I've deleted my on-line homework teacher three times but he won't go away.'

'I want you to text message 100 times, 'I will not text message in class.''

Scuba texting

"Hi, it's me. We just landed."

'You've got yourself a deal son. I'll read you 'Babar' and you'll help me with my computer.'

"Today, you're going to spend less time breaking into the school back office website, redirecting air traffic, sending encrypted messages overseas...and more time working on the lesson."

'Well you know the old saying... if you can't beat 'em you can always google someone who can.'

'Forget it - the nearest wi-fi hot spot is in Rangoon.'