MEXT Generative-AI Pilot Schools — Japan's 52-School Testbed for Classroom and Teacher Use (FY2023 cohort)

In FY2023 Japan's Ministry of Education (MEXT) designated 52 schools under its Leading DX School Project as generative-AI pilot schools, ahead of and alongside its provisional and later (ver. 2.0, December 2024) national guidelines for generative AI in schools.
A 2025 conference paper (ICLEA 2025) by researchers at the Uchidayoko Institute for Education Research categorised the use cases reported by all 52 schools: pupils mainly used generative AI to develop and refine ideas and to create drawings, music and stories; teachers most often used it to draft documents; high schools showed more advanced uses such as detailed prompts for program creation.
The pilot programme's own end-of-year survey (2023 academic year), summarised by the EN-ICHI/IPP Japan site, suggests pupils' motivation and creativity may rise through trial and error with prompts, but also records cases of pupils accepting AI answers uncritically or being unable to judge when use is appropriate.
Guidance drawn from the pilot stresses that teachers need hands-on experience of both benefits and risks (hallucination, bias), that pupils should treat output only as reference and make final judgements themselves, and that boards of education should set an information-security policy and organise training.
Caveat: the evidence is descriptive and self-reported; no controlled learning-outcome measurement or sample-size detail for the survey was available, so the entry is scored conservatively.

Read the full analysis: https://ippjapan.org/en_ichi/en/archives/774