Artificial intelligence has found its way into Miami-Dade classrooms. In the third-largest school district in the country, 100,000 students are now using Google’s Gemini chatbot in the classroom.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools teachers are experimenting with AI tools to grade essays and bring their lesson plans to life by enlisting chatbots to impersonate historical figures, according to a May story in the New York Times. Central Florida school leaders are also exploring the use of AI in classrooms.

That’s both exciting and troubling. Left unchecked, AI risks opening the door to a decline in students’ critical thinking skills — giving too much power to technology rather than teachers. We understand the temptation of asking ChatGPT when a student has a question that would require a lot

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