Cheating on homework is somewhat difficult to define perhaps. Is using your calculator cheating when solving a math word problem? Is a lookup for the differential equation or integral cheating because you don’t derive it yourself?
Perhaps it’s a case of stupid homework assignments as one mentioned (my phrasing). I suspect there is also a case of just changes in the world and how one needs to learn to best interact with it. Engineers are taught a lot of math but generally work with both books of tables that provide the answers or with applications that do the same. You just really need to know how to use the tool rather than be able to replicate what the tool does (though if you can you survive without the tool where as the other guy is going to struggle). AI and getting answers to problems, ultimately is what the world is, so learning to work and use the tool correctly, while not yet part of the legacy program, seems to be something a bit different that cheating to me; even if the school or teacher might see it as cheating from a purely definitional perspective.
As a friend of mine back in high school quipped to me one day, being smart is not about what you know, but about knowing where to find what you need to know.
Cheating on homework is somewhat difficult to define perhaps. Is using your calculator cheating when solving a math word problem? Is a lookup for the differential equation or integral cheating because you don’t derive it yourself?
Perhaps it’s a case of stupid homework assignments as one mentioned (my phrasing). I suspect there is also a case of just changes in the world and how one needs to learn to best interact with it. Engineers are taught a lot of math but generally work with both books of tables that provide the answers or with applications that do the same. You just really need to know how to use the tool rather than be able to replicate what the tool does (though if you can you survive without the tool where as the other guy is going to struggle). AI and getting answers to problems, ultimately is what the world is, so learning to work and use the tool correctly, while not yet part of the legacy program, seems to be something a bit different that cheating to me; even if the school or teacher might see it as cheating from a purely definitional perspective.
As a friend of mine back in high school quipped to me one day, being smart is not about what you know, but about knowing where to find what you need to know.