What role can – and should – members of the academic community play as censorship increasingly becomes institutionalized and bans and restrictions are on the ri
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SAGE Publishing’s Third Annual Critical Thinking Bootcamp offers insights, guidance, and resources to help librarians and professors encourage critical thinking in and out of the classroom. Join our free, virtual sessions to find ways to recognize and address the impact of tech trends on our media ecosystem and learn tactics that can be used by librarians, professors, and other staff to educate students.
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As COVID-19 forces the world into a predominately digital state, censorship and the spread of misinformation have not been far behind. Our experiences dealing with the pandemic have increased—and in many ways complicated—interactions with open data, internet control, e-book access, and more. What have we learned about censorship and censorship in academia as a result?
Read MoreTelevision, Twitter feeds, newspapers, oh my! In a world overrun with an endless news cycle, what are you not seeing? Amid the chaos of current events, governments, organizations, and societies around the globe are censoring critical information related to the pandemic. Especially in this period of crisis, it remains crucial to protect the public’s right to know and to access information.
Read MoreWith momentous events in 2020, including the pandemic, a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, and an upcoming election, comes a rapid rise of misinformation. How can we spot and respond to bad information? And how can librarians and instructors help college and university students do so too?
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What do the most useful online resources look like and do? This has become a more urgent question than anyone dreamed even a few months ago, and the urgency brings with it a whole new set of unwelcome questions: what does it mean to create good online resources fast, under great pressure, for those experiencing profound disruption and uncertainty?
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Super Quick Skills provide the essential building blocks you need to succeed at university - fast. We’ll be covering some top tips in this blog series.
Written by experienced SAGE study skills and research methods authors Super Quick Skills deliver tried and tested advice. Here are some of the authors' top tips to help you on your university journey. Super Quick Skills are here to the rescue!
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With Critical Thinking: An Online Course, we created an original online course that is inspired by the success of an established SAGE textbook. Tom Chatfield's book Critical Thinking: Your Guide to Effective Argument, Successful Analysis and Independent Study has been well received by students and lecturers alike, and is quickly establishing itself as a bestseller. There is clearly an appetite to learn this a fundamental skill that students are recognising they need. With the course, we are responding to the opportunity to bring the subject to life for students no matter where they are, to explore teaching critical thinking online, and to provide students with an interactive online learning experienc
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