Cheating vs. Collaboration

With the new wave of education that is coming.  Students will be encouraged to use, produse, and learn along side their teachers.  Students will be creating more collaborative projects utilizing the internet.  The collaborative process requires a constant quest of knowledge from others.  Unfortunately this can also be considered cheating.  The line between cheating and collaboration becomes fuzzier to younger students.  This is especially true for situations where education is trying to teach children originality.  In younger grades students have a difficult time giving the appropriate recognition to others who have helped them come up with ideas.  Basically collaboration is the socially accepted way of working with others while cheating is the unaccepted way of working together.  

Think about how many times as an adult you are forced to make a decision truly on your own without the possibility of consulting others?  I do not consider myself an experienced adult in this field, but I hypothesize that situations where one must make lone decisions are diminishing constantly.  We always have a friend to consult, the internet to look up questions, a cell phone to call another for help, etc.  Collaboration is the human way of living.  We work together all the time.  So why is cheating considered such a bad thing?  I understand that credit must be given to those who come up with the ideas, but life is a constant give and take of information sharing.  

How do we teach this new way of thinking in the classrooms so that people can utilize collaboration to its fullest potential?