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Mine is probably Tony Buzan's "Use Your Head".
i remember these 2 mind hacks from Oreilly being good, but i htink mine got borrowed forever.
Also, look at some of the books about home schooling, targeted to both parents and the teenagers themselves. I remember Grace Lewellyn's _ The Teenage Liberation Handbook_ having sections along the line of, "How do I go about really learning history/math/foreign languages/etc."
Many things with meta-learning advice will have it as a secondary topic, albeit an important one. Try your public library -- this is an excellent question for a librarian.
Here are printout versions of her posts:
/Gary
http://search.oreilly.com/?q=mind+hacks&submit.x=0&s... i remember these 2 mind hacks from Oreilly being good, but i htink mine got borrowed forever.
Next time you see someone at the coffee machine, ask them them what is meant by knowledge, reason, belief, truth, evidence, opinion, conviction, and hypocrisy.
The incoherent jumble you'll get back is indicative of the broken and sloppy process of the attempt to process data into knowledge (learning).
I've never heard of meta-learning, but about a year ago I stumbled onto a branch of philosophy called epistemology or the Theory of Knowledge. My studies there have been absolutely exhilarating and disturbing. Next time you see someone at the coffee machine, ask them them what is meant by knowledge, reason, belief, truth, evidence, opinion, conviction, and hypocrisy. The incoherent jumble you'll get back is indicativ…