Critical Thinking Bootcamp 2026

Strengthening AI Literacy

As AI reshapes how knowledge is produced and used, helping students think critically has never been more important. Sage's 7th-annual Critical Thinking Bootcamp, held in partnership with Choice, provided practical tools for academic librarians and faculty to support these vital skills. Our speakers shared ready-to-use resources, frameworks, and approaches for attendees to take away and apply directly in their own teaching or library instruction.

These resources are now available to access for free. Browse this page to discover four practical teaching sessions, our crowdsourced AI literacy tooilkit, and the full event recording.

AI literacy toolkit

Explore a crowdsourced list of AI literacy and critical thinking resources, including teaching materials and reading recommendations shared by attendees of the 2026 Bootcamp.

Download the toolkit

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Breakout session recordings

Verification and information seeking in the age of AI

Kolina Koltai - Senior Investigator and Trainer, Bellingcat

The rationality of distrust: Information integrity beyond individualism

Brooklyne Gipson - Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University

Teaching students to think critically about AI and evaluate its biases

Sandy Hervieux - Head Librarian, Nahum Gelber Law Library, McGill University

Helping Students Navigate AI Use with Integrity

Lee LaFleur - Associate Librarian for Research, Teaching, and Learning Services, Harvard University Libraries

Full event recording

Watch the complete event, including lightning talks and audience Q&A.

Speakers

Kolina Koltai is a senior researcher and trainer at Bellingcat. She’s primarily focused on the misuse and harms of AI with a specific focus around investigating companies behind AI-generated non-consensual pornography. Her background is in misinformation and the anti-vaccine movement. She has a PhD in Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.

Sandy Hervieux is Head Librarian at the Nahum Gelber Law Library, McGill University. Her research focuses on artificial intelligence in academic libraries, information literacy, and reference services. She is co-editor of The Rise of AI: Implications and Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Academic Libraries (ACRL, 2022). She is also a PhD candidate at McGill’s School of Information Studies.

Brooklyne Gipson is an assistant professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in the School of Communication and Information. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research areas include digital and social media environments, Black feminist digital/technology studies, and the intersection of race, gender, social media, and power.

Lee LaFleur is Associate Librarian for Research, Teaching, and Learning Services for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. In this role, he provides leadership for education, outreach, Creative Technologies, and Digital Scholarship services across the Harvard College Libraries. He also leads the Humanities and Social Sciences Collections and Services department, which provides library services and collections support for students, faculty, and staff across the University.

Dan Chibnall is the STEM Librarian & Associate Professor of Librarianship at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa in the United States. Dan teaches classes in science research, science communication, science fiction, the relationship between science & democracy, and misinformation in the 21st century. He has also co-authored articles on helping K-12 students to understand scientific concepts through active learning techniques.

Sarah Morris is a librarian, educator, and curriculum designer whose research and work focuses on critical information, media, and AI literacy, mis/disinformation, civic engagement, and library and information science education. Sarah is currently the Director of the Philip Weltner Library and University Librarian at Oglethorpe University. She holds an MA from the University of Chicago and an MSIS from the University of Texas at Austin.

Rosalind Tedford is the Director for Research, Instruction, and Outreach at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University. In addition to managing the research, instruction, scholarly communication, and outreach librarians and programs at Wake Forest, she has taught for-credit courses on algorithms and mis/disinformation. She also serves as the liaison to Politics and International Affairs and English.

Previous Bootcamp recordings

Browse recordings of previous events at the links below, and head to our Critical Thinking Hub for more critical thinking products and resources from Sage.

Critical Thinking Bootcamp 2025: The Future of Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking Bootcamp 2024: Critical Thinking and Democracy

Critical Thinking Bootcamp 2023: Critical Thinking and AI

Critical Thinking Bootcamp 2022: Technology and Ethics

Critical Thinking Bootcamp 2021: Combatting Misinformation

Critical Thinking Bootcamp 2020