Cheating is such a fluid concept anyway, and it's inconsistently applied. Some schools will suspend students for using calculators on a math test; some force students to bring calculators to their tests. Some give out the questions before a test, while others expel students for distributing test questions. Some require students to collaborate or use online sources; some forbid it. It's arbitrary.
Punishment for cheating also presumes the validity of 20th century-style academic testing, which is debatable.
What is the purpose? To ensure I'm qualified for a job? A job where I am free to look up words in a dictionary whenever I want?
I'd also add this: The internet is developing quickly into a literal extension of the human mind. I don't think it will be all that long before we're connected much more intimately to the internet than we are right now with just our eyeballs and fingertips. And that means we need to reevaluate what it means to learn information versus to find information.
Punishment for cheating also presumes the validity of 20th century-style academic testing, which is debatable.
What is the purpose? To ensure I'm qualified for a job? A job where I am free to look up words in a dictionary whenever I want?
I'd also add this: The internet is developing quickly into a literal extension of the human mind. I don't think it will be all that long before we're connected much more intimately to the internet than we are right now with just our eyeballs and fingertips. And that means we need to reevaluate what it means to learn information versus to find information.