IB137™ - (90-Minute Webinar Workshop)
A cognition-ignition experience that guides teachers and students on how to think well with AI, before speed becomes a liability. IB137 is a focused, 90-minute learning experience for Year 10–11 students designed to ignite thinking quality in an AI-mediated world. Rather than solving a single problem, students learn a repeatable reasoning protocol that they can apply across subjects, assessments, and real-world decisions.
This workshop introduces students to the Context & Critique Rule™ — a disciplined way of working with AI that strengthens judgment instead of outsourcing it. IB137 does not teach students what to think. It teaches them how to slow down, clarify intent, critique outputs, and stand by their reasoning with confidence.
Delivered as a live, 90-minute webinar, IB137 brings students into a shared thinking rhythm where work individually and in small peer groups, guided through the IB137 Loop Protocol™:
- Context first — defining what they are doing, for whom, and what “good” means
- Critique before adoption — testing clarity, assumptions, and alignment
- Optional Due Diligence (Deep Research) — when stakes or uncertainty warrant it
- A closing “Wall Moment” — deciding whether they are prepared to stand beside their work
The emphasis is not on finishing fast, but on making thinking visible. Students experience what it feels like to work deliberately with AI, rather than being rushed by it. This is not a lecture, and it is not a demo. It's a guided cognitive experience.
IB137 works because it changes the tempo of AI use. Instead of prompting for answers, students learn to establish context, request critique, and revise deliberately. AI functions as a mirror and stress-test, not a shortcut.
The workshop introduces a shared language — “What’s the context?” “Let’s critique that.” “I’m not ready to hang this yet.” — that can be reused across classrooms and subjects. Teachers are not required to become AI experts. The structure does the heavy lifting. Students retain authorship, and judgment stays human.
For higher-stakes work, IB137 introduces Due Diligence as a governed option. Students learn that:
- Deep Research is not always required
- Entering it is a matter of discernment
- Research may change the context — and when it does, thinking must loop back
This model's best practice delivering verification without paralysis, confidence without recklessness.
How AI Is Applied
AI is used as a cognitive tool, not a content generator. It's employed to:
- Reflect student reasoning back with clarity
- Surface gaps, assumptions, and weak logic
- Compare alternatives and sharpen language
- Support due diligence when appropriate
Students remain in control at every step. AI output is provisional until students choose to adopt or revise it.
Learning Outcomes
Students leave the session able to
- Apply a clear, repeatable thinking protocol
- Use AI for critique and clarity, not dependency
- Recognise when deeper research is required, and when it isn’t
- Explain and defend their reasoning under scrutiny
- Experience confidence as a result of visible judgment, not speed
Teachers consistently report calmer classrooms, clearer drafts, and students who are more willing to “stand beside” their work.
Ready to Run IB137? The IB137 90-minute webinar is designed as an entry point. It can stand alone and aligns cleanly with assessment and curriculum work.
It prepares students and teachers for deeper IB137 experiences if desired. Schools receive a complete facilitation structure, and teachers gain a shared cognition protocol they can reuse immediately.
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'IB137™' Explainer: IB stands for Impact Blueprint, and137 is a threshold number. Across physics, mathematics, and older numerological traditions, it appears at the point where something stable becomes active or where a hidden structure becomes visible. IB137 is named for that threshold moment.
In an IB137 workshop, students don’t suddenly become experts, nor do they “finish” learning how to think. What changes is more precise and more important: their thinking becomes visible, testable, and active. The hidden structure — how they frame problems, evaluate ideas, decide what counts as “good,” and judge AI output — surfaces for the first time. What was previously intuitive or unconscious becomes something they can articulate, critique, and stand beside.
Physics: The reciprocal, 1/137, approximates the fine-structure constant — a boundary value that governs how matter holds together.
Mathematics: 137 is a prime number, indivisible and clean, often used to mark foundational points.
Numerology: 1-3-7 reduces to 11, a number associated with clarity, activation, and crossing a threshold.
The IB137™ logo uses the Enso symbol, the open circle signifies disciplined thinking, and the option to return — the core posture of IB137.
