Patent Document ID: 9042808
Application ID: 12838244
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A hand held teaching apparatus, comprising: a display; at least one motion sensor; a touch screen, responsive to user inputs; at least one processor configured to: present to a user a didactic sequence on the display, the didactic sequence comprising a plurality of tasks and task-related user prompts; monitor the at least one motion sensor; sense user-implemented changes in apparatus orientation between a landscape orientation and a portrait orientation; train the user to progress through the didactic sequence steps necessary to successfully complete and/or master tasks, wherein the training of the user includes: a) determine whether the user has crossed off an answer choice on the touch screen using either a finger or a stylus; and in the event that the user has crossed off the answer choice, determine whether remaining uncrossed off answer choice is a correct answer; b) determine whether the user has crossed off a first answer choice and a second answer choice, wherein after the first and second answer choices are crossed off, only an answer correlating to a step of the training operation remains; c) or any combination thereof; determine whether user inputs are appropriate inputs in connection with said tasks and prompts; and in the event that the user inputs are appropriate inputs, navigate through said didactic sequence between said tasks and said prompts, wherein the navigating through the didactic sequence comprises: encapsulate the teaching task in a mnemonic, the mnemonic including at least three elements; and change the apparatus orientation after completing each step in the didactic sequence, the didactic sequence comprising a process-based series of problem solving techniques, wherein the changing of the apparatus orientation permits user navigation through said didactic sequence if the step has been correctly completed, only if a first letter of the apparatus orientation after each apparatus rotation is consistent with a next element of the mnemonic, only if the mnemonic corresponds to the apparatus orientation changing at least twice, and a first element of the at least three elements corresponds to an initial apparatus orientation; and a memory coupled to the at least one processor and configured to provide the at least one processor with instructions.