How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future

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Artificial Intelligence Microsoft Moderates A.I. Spending A.I. Forecast A.I.’s Super Bowl A.I. Hallucinations Quiz You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future After initially banning artificial intelligence chatbots, schools are embracing the tools. Miami, the third-largest U.S. school district, shows how. Credit… Ysa Pérez for The New York Times Skip to content Skip to site index How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future After initially banning artificial intelligence chatbots, schools are embracing the tools. Miami, the third-largest U.S. school district, shows how. Credit… Ysa Pérez for The New York Times Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Listen to this article · 11:50 min Learn more Share full article 83 83 By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer visited classes at Southwest Miami Senior High School and sat in on A.I. training for Miami teachers. May 19, 2025 Updated 8:30 a.m. ET One morning in April, Tracy Lowd, a social studies teacher in Miami, tried a new approach to making government policy come alive for her high school students. She used artificial intelligence chatbots to role-play American presidents. Her class at Southwest Miami Senior High School had already read about John F. Kennedy and discussed his campaign for “new frontier” economic and social policies. Now Ms. Lowd asked two dozen 11th graders to open their laptops and type a prompt into Google’s Gemini chatbot: “Act like President Kennedy. What was the new frontier?” The chatbot quickly spat out paragraphs of Kennedyesque text, including phrases like “my fellow Americans.” Then Ms. Lowd asked her students to analyze whether the chatbot simulations accurately reflected the Kennedy speeches they had studied. The teenagers’ verdict: The simulations were “awkward,” “weird” and yet still credible. Image In Tracy Lowd’s social studies class in Miami, students asked an A.I. chatbot to “act like President Kennedy” and tell them about the president’s economic and social policies. Credit… Ysa Pérez for The New York Times “It did a very good job of impersonating J.F.K.,” said Ashley Acedo, 17. Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the nation’s third-largest school distric t, is at the forefront of a fast-moving national experiment to embed generative A.I. technologies into teaching and learning. Over the last year, the district has trained more than 1,000 educators on new A.I. tools and is now introducing Google chatbots for more than 105,000 high schoolers — the largest U.S. school district deployment of its kind to date. We are having trouble retrieving the article content. Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in . Want all of The Times? Subscribe . Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT