I found http://www.cybertracker.co.za/ and a neat article at http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/computing/1998/981106124.asp but couldn't find anywhere to download it.. do you have a link?
I don't yet. But I am getting a copy of it on CDROM from the Wilderness Awareness School, one of the shool's founders, Jon Young, did the North American sequence. http://www.natureoutlet.com/
I bet there's all kinds of applications for this idea, and having access to this kind of expert system/mentor system on a palm pilot could make it even more powerful.
I agree. Jon Young, who has lots of experience tracking and even designed the sequence say he finds it useful in the field. It helps him to pause and consider options he might not otherwise have remembered in the moment.
maietic?
oops. maieutic is the actual spelling. From the root maia, meaning midwife. It's another term for Socratic method. The teacher helps in giving birth to the knowledge in the student, drawing the knowledge out of them.
I think I'll map out my hypothetical recusion/fibonacci lesson as a graph and post a link to the edu-sig for comments..
I look forward to it! Stephen