Tech-savvy Mentor Gifts

'Please pay attention. Pretend I'm a movie on your phone.'

"How could your dog eat your homework? You do it on a laptop and email it to me."

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'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

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

"Would you like to keep eighty-seven tabs open?"

Mozart on a computer,

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

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

'Your parents are way too overprotective.'

"The wifi password? Of course Madame, it's 'Ilove100boobies69'."

"I really don't care what yours says. My weather app says rain for 40 days and 40 nights. I think you should probably go with that, Noah."

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"A virus ate my homework."

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Silver Surfer.

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

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

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

"I've gone electric, you should be too!"

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

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

The password: "C'mon everybody try to remember!"

"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.'

I'm a child of the early 5o's who has found time in retirement to become tech savvy. You're a mid-century modern.

Childhood Screen Addict

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

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

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

"I've had a busy week. I had my hip and iPhone upgraded."

"Sorry, your password must have at least nine characters, with both letters and numbers."

"Hang on - I've got an app for this. . ."

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

"One of you got online and stole my identity, which is weird because there's not one thing unique about us."