Agreed. This headline makes it sound like they're cheating in exams, but this is take-home assignments we're talking about. If wolfram alpha wasn't available, they'd be asking friends or posting in maths forums. Wolfram alpha is simply more efficient at this job but all take-home assignments have this problem inherently.
Students just need to be aware that they should learn from solutions provided by wolfram alpha (there's nothing wrong with that), otherwise they're going to flunk the closed-book exams anyway.
Exactly: Why is homework considered something that can be "cheated" on anyway? The whole purpose is to get practice and learn the material.
Just make the tests challenging-the ones who actually did their homework will pass. The ones who didn't won't.
Wolfram Alpha helped me many times-sometimes you're simply stuck on a problem and no one is there to help. But like anything, you can use it to cheat and not do work, or you can use it to help you learn more.
Students just need to be aware that they should learn from solutions provided by wolfram alpha (there's nothing wrong with that), otherwise they're going to flunk the closed-book exams anyway.