A manifesto · 2026

AI gives answers.
We teach children to think.

The Human Intelligence Method helps educators redesign learning so students do not outsource judgment, curiosity, and responsibility to AI.

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Built from nearly a decade of museum-based learning practice in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Try this in one class period

A 20-minute practice for making student thinking visible.

Five short moves that fit inside a single class period. Use it twice a week, in any subject, with any age group. No syllabus rewrite. No new tools. Just a different shape for the time you already have.

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Not theory. Museum practice.

For nearly a decade, I have watched children learn through experiments, questions, mistakes, and sudden understanding inside an interactive science museum.

The Human Intelligence Method comes from that work — from watching a child move a ball on a rotating disk, get it wrong, try again, and suddenly understand something they did not know they were capable of understanding.

This is not an AI consultancy. It is a method built on what actually happens when a young mind is trusted to observe, ask, attempt, and reason for itself.

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The conversation about AI in education has shrunk into two flat positions. Ban it. Or embrace it. Both feel responsible. Neither is.

The argument · in three moves

The final answer is no longer proof of understanding.

01 · THE PROBLEM

AI broke
the proxy.

For decades, the artifact stood in for the act of thinking. AI severed that contract. The page no longer tells us what happened in the mind.

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02 · THE METHOD

Make thinking
visible.

Five principles for educators who want to evaluate what the mind did, not what the page contains. With a 20-minute version that works in any classroom.

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03 · THE LAB

A founding circle of educators.

A four-week working circle for thirty educators. Real assignments, real students, real cases. We build the method by using it.

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Inside the manifesto

Thirty-eight pages. One position. A practical method built on it.

  1. The Five Principles of the Method

    From "the artifact is not the act" to "judgment cannot be outsourced." A coherent framework educators can apply this term, not next year.

  2. A redesigned Marie Curie assignment, in full

    One complete worked example. Five stages — Before AI, With AI, After AI, Final Work, Oral Defense. Adaptable to any subject.

  3. The 20-minute version, for any teacher

    A practice that fits inside a single class period. Twice a week, for a few weeks, and you begin to see a different kind of thinking in the room.

  4. The seven capacities that must remain human

    What we are actually defending in a thirteen-year-old when we say their thinking should remain their own.

Founder · Museum Builder · Education Project Architect

Sofiko Bigvava

Creator of The Human Intelligence Method. CEO of Experimentorium, an interactive science museum in Tbilisi, where for nearly a decade she has designed learning experiences that ask children to observe, question, attempt, doubt, and reason for themselves.

Founder of Girls Who Change the World, an international education movement supporting girls in science, courage, and independent thinking.

She works daily with AI in real projects, and writes from the intersection of museum practice, parenting, and emerging technology.

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The Founding Lab · Cohort One

For educators who want to become architects of thinking — not police officers of AI use.

Cohort One is open to thirty educators who want to test, refine, and strengthen The Human Intelligence Method in real classrooms. Four weeks. Online. Asynchronous. Application-based.

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