Embracing Failure in Academia: Challenging Student Reliance on AI

Abstract

Artificial intelligence and content generators have allowed college students, both undergraduate and graduate, to embrace a tool that not only builds ideas, but synthesizes those ideas into precise, nearly perfect packages of information. As such, students begin to rely on these tools to create above-average work with little to no effort. This session explores ways to help students embrace the imperfections of building academic knowledge so that they embrace crafting academic work that evidences the struggles of critical thinking and the role of growth as opposed to grades.

Presenters

Gretchen Oltman
Associate Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Creighton University, Nebraska, United States

Details

Presentation Type

Workshop Presentation

Theme

2025 Special Focus—Minds and Machines: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Ethics, and Order in Global Society

KEYWORDS

Failure, Artificial intelligence, Critical thinking, Grades, Academia, Undergraduate, Graduate