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Attend webinars with our internationally recognized Fellows and Scholars.
See below for upcoming webinars. Some are free to the general public, while others are exclusive to members of the Center for Critical Thinking Community Online. (If you are brand new, a 30-day free trial is available for this membership website.)
We offer three types of webinars:
1. Webinar Presentations: These are mainly presentations by our Fellows. At the end, attendees have the opportunity to type and submit their questions in text. Webcams are not required.
2. Webinar Q&A's: These are discussions facilitated by our Fellows. They may begin with a brief presentation, but will primarily revolve around participant questions. Webcams are required and must remain on throughout the session.
3. Webinar Workshops: These will involve a mix of presentations, interactive exercises, and time for participant questions. Webcams are required and must remain on throughout the session.
Typically, our webinar announcements provide optional activities for you to complete ahead of time in the Community Online. These will be relevant to the topic at hand; although the activities are not madatory, the new understandings you gain by completing them will help you to ask more refined questions at each webinar.
Please note that these sessions are recorded for later viewing by members of the Community Online, and some clips may be posted on other platforms.
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Led by Dr. Linda Elder
Thursday, February 5, 2026
4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
(1:00 p.m. PST)
Duration: 60 Minutes
This is an interactive online workshop in which participants, with Dr. Elder’s facilitation, will work as a group or in breakout rooms to explore and apply critical thinking concepts and processes.
Webcams are required and must remain on throughout the session.
We record webinar workshops for later viewing by members of The Center for Critical Thinking Community Online, and some clips may also be posted on other platforms.
Social media fosters many, and ever-increasing, damaging realities and harsh conditions that humans choose to participate in. These include the following:
1. It is now the norm for people to encounter and frequent specialized, biased social media websites, applications, groups, pages, and discussions that reinforce certain worldviews and presuppositions with little or no regard for accuracy, completeness, breadth, or other reasonable intellectual standards.
2. Many people now consume “news” and other “information” primarily through free-for-all social media platforms which are, at best, mixing pots of fact and falsity, of well-reasoned and unreasonable ideas, with no clear delineation between irrational gibberish and legitimate journalism or other expertise.
3. Many people are still unaware of the prevalence of false information and blatant propaganda throughout social media, and many are similarly unable to distinguish between fact and commentary.
4. Social media is engineered to beget severe addiction and, by implication, its attendant cognitive and behavioral dependencies and dysfunctionalities.
This webinar workshop will help participants actively explore the deleterious effects of social media, as well as how they can fully control their engagement with it through the concepts and tools of critical thinking.
To prepare for this webinar, we recommend completing as many of the following activities as you can beforehand. These require an account in The Center for Critical Thinking Community Online, where a 30-day free trial is available for new users. You are not required to complete the activities to join the webinar workshop, but doing so can be highly useful for your and others’ learning.
1. Read the Community Online’s partial copy of Fact Over Fake: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Media Bias and Political Propaganda. While much of this publication deals with mass media more generally, consider how its information, concepts, and principles relate to social media in particular.
2. For each of the passages dealing specifically with social media on pages 13-16 of Fact Over Fake: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Media Bias and Political Propaganda, perform the following exercises in writing:
a. State in your own words what the passage is saying.
b. Give examples from your own life of what the passage is saying.
c. Think of at least one metaphor that illustrates what the passage is saying.
