Critical Thinking Bootcamp: Strengthening AI Literacy

Sage’s 7th-annual Critical Thinking Bootcamp is a free online event providing practical tools for academic librarians and faculty to support AI literacy and critical thinking. Speakers will share ready-to-use resources, frameworks, and approaches that attendees can take away and apply directly in their own teaching or library instruction.

This free event includes:

LIGHTNING TALKS: Bite-size overviews of key topics

READING LIST PRESENTATION AND CROWD SOURCING: Discover and contribute to an AI literacy resource list for the academic community.

BREAKOUT SESSIONS: Built around a practical activity, lesson plan, or thought exercise that you can apply in your own teaching or library instruction.

SPEAKER Q&A: Pose your own questions to our speakers.

Speakers:

BROOKLYNE GIPSON, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University

SANDY HERVIEUX, Head Librarian, Nahum Gelber Law Library, McGill University

KOLINA KOLTAI, Senior Investigator and Trainer, Bellingcat

LEROY LAFLEUR, Associate Librarian for Research, Teaching, and Learning Services for Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University Libraries

DAN CHIBNALL, STEM Librarian & Associate Professor of Librarianship, Drake University

SARAH MORRIS, Director of the Library at Oglethorpe University

ROSALIND TEDFORD, Director for Research, Instruction, and Outreach, Wake Forest University

Register early to secure your choice of breakout session.

The 2026 Critical Thinking Bootcamp is held in partnership with Choice, a publishing unit of the ALA/ACRL.