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Mastering Abstracting Skills: The Art of Critical Thinking by Dr. Eddie Baumann

Explore the essential steps in developing abstracting skills through Moby Dick analysis. Understand the process of abstracting and how to articulate underlying themes effectively. Practice and internalize abstracting for progressive thinking.

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Mastering Abstracting Skills: The Art of Critical Thinking by Dr. Eddie Baumann

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  1. Teaching Critical Thinking: Abstracting Dr. Eddie Baumann “The truth is more important than facts”

  2. Abstracting skills • Moby Dick • Man striving against God • Go to movie • Discuss the rotten themes • Abstracting from a whale story

  3. Steps in Skill Building • Construct a model of the skill • How do experts do the skill • E.g. look at good basketball shooters • Shaping of the skill (guided practice) • Critic while they are doing it • Internalize the skill (independent practice) • practice on their own – do lots of reps Thinking is progressive. Work through the process

  4. Abstracting– id & articulate the underlying theme or general pattern of info • What is important here? • Main ideas • How can I say the same thing in a more general way? • Replace words referring to specific things with words referring to more general things. • Summarize information whenever possible • Use it outside of the context given • What else has the same pattern

  5. E.g. 4 main ideas from article.

  6. The Process Literal Abstract Literal E.g. Biblical hermeneutic – Interpretation learning from the OT

  7. e.g. Love is a rose • Characteristics of roses • Beautiful, smelly, must be tended, thorny, delicate • As it unfolds you see more. • Fragrance lasts even after it dies. • Proverbs – “Guard your heart, it is wellspring of life” • This is a metaphor of love

  8. Teacher vs. student directed activities • Model the process. Teacher-directed activities allow students to imitate the process of the teacher using accepted categories • Student directed allow for students to make the process their own.

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