Critical Thinking Bootcamp Toolkit 2024
Sage’s fifth annual Critical Thinking Bootcamp explored critical thinking and global democracy.
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August 16, 2024
August 16, 2024
Sage’s fifth annual Critical Thinking Bootcamp explored critical thinking and global democracy. The event included a thought-provoking examination of how AI and social media impact on democracy, strategies for equipping learners with information literacy skills, and how democracy and science can learn from each other.
This toolkit offers resources from presenters and participants, and further resources from Sage on these topics.
Resources from the Bootcamp
Resources recommended by our Bootcamp speakers and attendees.
Digital resources
- Be MediaWise: A Misinformation Resilience Toolkit For Libraries | A toolkit that invites you to explore your engagement with online information and teaches you how to navigate the internet world safely and confidently.
- Election Cycle Tracker | An interactive map from Anchor Change showing the 83 elections taking place over 78 countries in 2024, as well as elections in future years.
- TrueMedia.org | Evaluates images and videos to assess whether they have been AI-generated.
- The SIFT Method | Infographic from University of Oregon Libraries describing how to use the SIFT method for evaluating information in a digital world.
- Political Advertising Literacy Tips | Tips on evaluating political advertising from the Political Advertising Literacy Research Group at the University of Tennessee and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Digital Threats to Democracy initiative | An initiative from The Carter Center that has developed tools and methodologies to assess a range of issues in the online/digital information ecosystem related to democracy, elections, and broader political processes.
- Global Freedom Status | An interactive map from Freedom House that assigns a freedom score and status to 210 countries and territories.
Free-to-access articles and book chapters
- From a crisis of confidence towards confidence in a crisis: What can we learn about the pandemic’s impact on democracy? | Free access to Reema Patel’s chapter in Governance, Democracy and Ethics in Crisis-Decision-Making: The Pandemic and Beyond, edited by Caroline Redhead and Melanie Smallman
- Are Online Political Influencers Accelerating Democratic Deconsolidation? | The research outputs discussed in Rachel Gibson’s presentation. Rachel Gibson, Esmeralda Bon, Philipp Darius and Peter Smyth
- Critical Thinking, Information Literacy and Democracy: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Tackle Misinformation and Prepare Students for Active Citizenship | Barbara Robertson and Tamra Ortgies-Young
- Building Civic Competencies: Design and Outcomes in Media Literacy Instruction | Barbara Robertson and Tamra Ortgies-Young
Books
- Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality - Renée DiResta
- Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media - Jason Hannan
- How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future - Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power - Shoshana Zuboff
- Lies, Incorporated: The World of Post-Truth Politics - Ari Rabin-Havt and Media Matters for America
- When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and its Consequences - Eric Alterman
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business - Neil Postman
- The Cruelty is the Point: Why Trump’s America Endures - Adam Serwer
Speakers' slides
- Are online political influencers harmful or helpful to democracy? Comparing the role of of established and new actors in the U.S. 2020 Presidential election | Rachel Gibson
- Democracy and science: Enhancing critical thinking for a viable future: The role of AI in libraries | Russell Michalak
- The role of critical thinking, education, and democracy | Barbara Robertson
- Science and democracy: Empower, collaborate, and advance | Dan Chibnall
- Be MediaWise: A misinformation resilience toolkit for libraries | Hong Yao
- Identity, influencers, and interference: How social media is leveraged to work against democracy | Darren Linvill
Watch the recording:
Recommended resources from Sage
Digital resources
Critical Thinking Hub | Free resources from Sage on Critical Thinking, including webinars, student resources, and a toolkit from Sage and the American Library Association.
- How to think critically | A collection of free resources to help students develop critical thinking skills, including book extracts, webinars, and more.
- Information Literacy online courses | A collection of courses from Sage Campus covering critical thinking, fact-checking sources, developing your search strategy, and the art of ChatGPT interactions.
- Democracy and Elections Hub | Free resources for researching and teaching about democracy and the upcoming elections.
Books
- Critical Thinking | Tom Chatfield
- Check That Fact | Sarah Morris
- Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates | Mike Wallace and Alison Wray
- Read Critically | Alex Baratta
- Build Your Argument | Dave Rush
- How to Think: Your Essential Guide to Clear, Critical Thought | Tom Chatfield
- How to Read and Write Critically | Alex Baratta
- How to Argue | Alastair Bonnett
- Think Critically | Tom Chatfield
- The Essential Guide to Building Your Argument | Dave Rush
