A little help from my friends

“to enhance my learning” is fine. “to do the assignment for me” is not.

He says: The thinking behind the statement on the first sign ["I have neither given nor received help"] is a reflection of the idea that learning is a solitary and isolated pursuit and will also be measured in isolation. That kind of learning is most often based on the retention of concrete bits of information, stuff that’s easily Googleable.”

In other words, he thinks that knowing stuff is shallow and uncool, and that students can learn without actually learning material. He also thinks that individual pondering and deep thought is uncool. I have a hard time taking him very seriously after reading that. Group work is very nice, but it’s only part of an education.

Sure–as long as you don’t want to attend Harvard. If you learn such poor habits in K-12, you may find yourself separated from the university at some future time, due to alleged cheating.

Teaching students “collaboration” is fine, as long as they are capable of producing independent work, and know when to refrain from collaborating. Students would be better served by stringent enforcement of rules against cheating, though.