Academic integrity and AI (what is cheating vs learning) in AI for Everyone - Hands-On Comparison

Understanding Academic Integrity and AI: What is Cheating vs Learning

📖 Scenario: You are a student learning how to use AI tools responsibly in your studies. You want to understand the difference between using AI to help you learn and using it in a way that breaks academic rules.

🎯 Goal: Build a simple guide that lists examples of actions that are considered cheating and actions that support learning when using AI tools.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a dictionary called actions with examples of AI use and their descriptions

Create a list called cheating_examples with keys from the dictionary that represent cheating

Create a list called learning_examples with keys from the dictionary that represent learning

Add a final summary string called summary explaining the difference between cheating and learning with AI

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Students and educators can use this knowledge to understand how to use AI tools responsibly and maintain academic honesty.

💼 Career

Understanding ethical AI use is important for students, teachers, and professionals to avoid plagiarism and promote genuine learning.

1

Create AI use examples dictionary

Create a dictionary called actions with these exact entries: 'copy_paste': 'Copying AI-generated text as your own work', 'ask_for_explanation': 'Using AI to explain difficult concepts', 'auto_complete': 'Letting AI finish your assignments without understanding', 'practice_questions': 'Using AI to generate practice questions for study'.

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# Create the dictionary called actions with the given entries
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use curly braces to create a dictionary with the exact keys and values given.

2

Create lists for cheating and learning examples

Create a list called cheating_examples containing the keys 'copy_paste' and 'auto_complete'. Then create a list called learning_examples containing the keys 'ask_for_explanation' and 'practice_questions'.

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actions = {
    'copy_paste': 'Copying AI-generated text as your own work',
    'ask_for_explanation': 'Using AI to explain difficult concepts',
    'auto_complete': 'Letting AI finish your assignments without understanding',
    'practice_questions': 'Using AI to generate practice questions for study'
}
# Create cheating_examples and learning_examples lists with the specified keys
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use square brackets to create lists with the exact keys as strings.

3

Link examples to descriptions

Create a new dictionary called cheating_descriptions that uses the keys from cheating_examples to get their descriptions from actions. Similarly, create a dictionary called learning_descriptions using learning_examples keys and actions values.

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actions = {
    'copy_paste': 'Copying AI-generated text as your own work',
    'ask_for_explanation': 'Using AI to explain difficult concepts',
    'auto_complete': 'Letting AI finish your assignments without understanding',
    'practice_questions': 'Using AI to generate practice questions for study'
}

cheating_examples = ['copy_paste', 'auto_complete']
learning_examples = ['ask_for_explanation', 'practice_questions']

# Create cheating_descriptions and learning_descriptions dictionaries using comprehension
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use dictionary comprehension to create new dictionaries from the lists and the original dictionary.

4

Add final summary explanation

Create a string variable called summary with this exact text: 'Cheating with AI means using it to do your work without understanding, while learning means using AI to help you understand and practice.'

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actions = {
    'copy_paste': 'Copying AI-generated text as your own work',
    'ask_for_explanation': 'Using AI to explain difficult concepts',
    'auto_complete': 'Letting AI finish your assignments without understanding',
    'practice_questions': 'Using AI to generate practice questions for study'
}

cheating_examples = ['copy_paste', 'auto_complete']
learning_examples = ['ask_for_explanation', 'practice_questions']

cheating_descriptions = {key: actions[key] for key in cheating_examples}
learning_descriptions = {key: actions[key] for key in learning_examples}

# Add the summary string variable
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Assign the exact text to the variable summary using quotes.