iPad, and Inkling technology -- helpful for Aspies in school

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I was just doing some research about the iPad, and came across this:

http://www.inkling.com/about/

I really hope that this comes to fruition in the relatively near future, because I can see how this might really be helpful to aspies:

1. textbooks on the iPad would solve the problems of always forgetting one's books.
2. This "Inkling" concept would make parts of the textbook manipulative, thereby helping those who learn by DOING, especially when you need something more interactive than a lecture to learn.
3. The ability to read other students notes within a classroom would be ABSOLUTELY IDEAL for those who have a hard time listening to a lecture and taking notes at the same time.

All three of the above are things my now 13-year old could really benefit from if this iPad gets going with the Inkling concept. Maybe by the time he's in college, all of the kinks will be worked out.

What do you think?

If they could deliver any time soon it would be helpful. My twelve year old had to have his locker taken away because he would spend twenty minutes poking around in it instead of going to class... He now carries almost all of his books all day long. (And yet still feels the need to pack half of his bedroom in on top of them *boggle*)

Wow -- it sounds like you truly feel my pain! Wouldn't it be great if these kids only had to carry around ONE contraption (an iPad or Kindle or something like this) rather than all of these heavy books? I can't WAIT for the day when the ONE contraption would be required by all school districts, just to get rid of all of the books (and all of the possibility of forgetting to bring home said books!).

It would be easier on his back and my sanity! I could not tell you how many times he says, "Well I did have homework for such and such class, but I forgot to bring it home."

And his pack is always a huge mess of random papers. Even though he has a notebook with a section for each class!

This sounds like a great step towards the "desks" from the Ender's Game series. Shame that I'm in graduate engineering classes, so I'll probably never see this implemented with any of my textbooks and classes before I graduate.

And to think I just carry a laptop to school...

Unfortunately I cannot trust my twelve year old with a laptop. He has made it abundantly clear that at every possible chance he will go online and download massive amounts of random programs that contain virii...

A good organized electronic environment using inkling-devices could be nice. Also for other documents. When I go to meetings at work I sometimes take complete organizers to have the relevant documents, that is a bit much (and most of the times people ask about the documents I left at my desk!)

The problems with books was not so big for me, but nowadays they have more books at school.

Educate him then, because the faster he learns, the less damage he will do in the end (god forbid he gets a job in government and does that)

They're looking to get my son a laptop, which would certainly help. Hoping it comes through soon... his locker apparently is completely chaotic, and he's always losing things. And his bedroom looks like a book bomb went off in it. Even to me (also dyspraxic) I find it an astonishing zone. And I thought aspies were supposed to ORGANISE!

Unfortunately we have tried and tried and then finally gave up. Perhaps when he is a little older that will be possible, but he is very young for his age still and his understanding of consequences seems so slow to develop. Honestly i was hoping that we would be able to allow him a laptop within the year because I know that next year (seventh grade) will be so much more writing and thus more difficult for him. However, now I am thinking that we will have to home school him instead.

*mgran: My son's locker was terrible, from the third day of school on it was completely trashed! He has no organizational skills and I am not equipped to help him with it as I cannot do it either!

It's the same way with me, and always has been. The organized crap is just a stereotype if you ask me.

Well, that makes three of us then. Aspies for chaos, unite... hang on, that won't work, will it?

We can always try, and fail

Seriously though, I'm starting to realize that I'm a paradox...