Rethinking Academic Dishonesty

Educators may permit students to use GenAI tools, like Google's Gemini, as a learning and research aid, provided the students critically engage with and modify the outputs to integrate their own original analysis and understanding. This shift requires a re-evaluation of academic honesty.

Based on Matt Miller's updated definitions:

• Cheating is defined as dishonest academic work that misrepresents a student's true understanding or ability for an unfair advantage.

• Plagiarism is defined as a student representing work as their own creation when, in reality, it is not their own work.