Matthew

Matthew Christian Hansel Budiono

Goals

In the wake of the pandemic, many schools have adapted by adopting online learning classes. Students and teachers alike needed to work together in order to create a functioning learning environment inside their homes, this was to avoid the further spreading of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19). As fellow users of online classes, most students are a part of the 92% that believe online learning is as, if not more effective than on site learning. Students and teachers are able to schedule their study times and—for schools—can casually enter classes and allow for a potentially more productive learning session. Not many doubt the effectiveness of online learning.

However, there is no doubt a hint of bias among the common consensus of online learning. Although online mediums have proven their effectiveness in terms of convenience and efficiency, there are cases where students are unable to learn at an optimum level. Speaking from our personal experience, learning virtually poses a degree of difficulty that mass surveys and research papers are simply unable to represent. Oftentimes they require additional individual study to truly understand the topic. And we plan to help aid those students willing to deepen and strengthen their academic knowledge. Cooperating with teachers and perhaps substituting them, we plan to create a server where most academic advice is easily accessible. Establishing a learning community in the process to inspire those who feel discouraged in learning. We want to know their issues, their problems, and their feedback in order to better ourselves and convey to the teacher in the long run.

Our group believes that an online student-led tutoring session will be one of the most effective methods of teaching other students, especially seniors to juniors. Our interactions will be held online, so as to avoid the dangers of the pandemic. We will create a discord server, a well-known media application, and utilize its various unique features for academic purposes. As a side product, we also plan to create a website documenting and listing down topics we have covered so anyone can revisit previously discussed topics. This website will also act as our backup plan. In case that our server receives few direct tutoring requests, we will instead create tutorial videos and enrich our site. The topics we will cover will include mathematics, sciences, English, Bahasa Indonesia, and general skills (preview for DP subjects, courses, and [QoL] quality of life skills).

Experience Description

CAS Project Strand: Creativity and Service
Duration: 1st April 2021 - 27th August 2021
Place: Online

LO1: Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experiences

This learning outcome would be achieved by simply running and maintaining both the discord server and the website. Our server will act as physical evidence of our tutoring actions, while we will create a compilation and record important milestones along the way. Our commitment and perseverance will not only be shown by the evidence but also the product of our endeavors. The website, discord server, and the end of the program student reviews.

LO2: Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working, collaboratively

This project is not a one-man task, it will require collaborative work. Research published by Gaskell, A. from Forbes suggests that working collaboratively will improve our performance in doing our project. Our project will have multilayered management; Material research, Website Building, and most importantly the tutoring itself. Collaborative work will be required to distribute the load so as to keep CAS a project we can do without bothering our academic lives. The success of the project will be proof of our success in our collaborative work, as well as our group management.

LO3: Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance

As many students are having problems with their academics, we will be engaging with the issues of global significance. Research done by the University of Illinois exposed that one fatal issue with online classes is student discipline and literacy of technology. This also applies to the teachers and faculty members who aren’t used to teaching their students using the complete tools at their disposal, leading to severe inefficiencies. Our project aims to combat this global issue of learning inefficiency, especially for those students who are struggling to keep up with classes using the online medium due to unsatisfactory or inefficient teaching methods.

Many students are stressed out due to the pressure from school teachers and parents when it comes to academics. We will support their academics and help them to understand their studies even more.

LO4: Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions

We must conduct our tutoring sessions ethically by acknowledging academic honesty. Our activities will not involve providing direct answers to the students’ questions or doing the students’ schoolwork for them. But instead, we will teach them how to come up with solutions to the problems they are facing by teaching them to solve similar problems.

Reflection

Reflection of Investigation Process

Date/Time: February 5 2021

LOs achieved: Working collaboratively

LOS achieved: Engagement with Issues of Global Significance

This is when we conducted a meeting with Bu Farah to talk about the things that we are going to plan out and do. In this experience we were able to be more active and productive regarding our CAS project. Furthermore we planned to make a different thing compared to our first project idea which is to make a Minecraft city.

The most important thing is that our communication and open-mindedness play a big role in our favour. Since we need to discuss what went well and wrong as on our initial plan for our project idea. Which we have to discard and change since making Minecraft city is not really suitable for us and benefit others in the process. Therefore we asked Bu Farah for the initial idea of making a server which later on we changed our mind and do something else.

It was very cooperative as we went on regarding our research and plans for our project. Though we have to change our initial plan and focus more one the online learning idea which we concluded at the end. As I feel somewhat disappointed and worried what would happen if we were to do our project regarding online learning about IB DP.

This project has given me the opportunity to become more inquirer, reflective, and communicative. As this learning profile has helped to be more productive in our general discussion regarding our project idea. Therefore it is valuable for me to learn from what we do in this experience.

Supporting Evidences : (Photos or videos)

[CAS (Project) Evidence - Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1m9AbeKQdoekHb7yILFn4geVEA4TDSCra?usp=sharing)

[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECo8zDSwM28&ab_channel=Tobs)

Reflection of Preparation Process

Date/Time: June 17 2021

LOs achieved: Commitment and Perseverance

LOs achieved: Ethics of Choices and Actions

Based on the communication of the discussion between the tutor and students, I was able to achieve the learning outcomes without a problem. Furthermore I also created a logs channel and database, that could show on how many people have joined in the past week and the changes that I have made in the server. Thus making it more manageable for our CAS evidence. As it shows the amount of people joining the server in the past week along with the changes that I added to the server to make it better and easier for others to use.

The importance of this database is so that we could see the amount of students that we have invited so far. Which shows the rising popularity of our service of the discord server. Which was a good thing because we want to advertise as much as possible so that more people can join it and we can help them more. Though it is still going to be difficult to invite more people as the time progresses.

I was feeling excited and proud of myself that the database that was implemented was doing great, as it shows the graph of the amount of students who have joined and the chats log that we have gotten in the past weeks. Therefore it is making me more happy that it actually worked and it is going to be more beneficial for our team in the future.

For the most part this experience has mostly contributed to the development of my communication skills, which I discussed with my team of the whole thing, which we agreed on and I started working on it. With this I was able to get the best result of the overall discord server. Which is easier for us tutors to discuss with the students as there are multiple functions that they can use to contact us. Therefore I’m going to keep trying to be more communicative and productive about the development of the server along with the contribution of my team.

Supporting Evidences : (Photos or videos)

[CAS (Project) Evidence - Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1m9AbeKQdoekHb7yILFn4geVEA4TDSCra?usp=sharing)

Reflection of Action Process
Date/Time: August 4 2021

LOs achieved: Commitment and Perseverance

LOs achieved: Working collaboratively

LOs achieved: Engagement with Issues of Global Significance

LOs achieved: Ethics of Choices and Actions

Through the communication and teamwork skills we were able to finish the website and post it online and in the discord server regarding tips on IB DP. We also consulted with our supervisor regarding our CAS plan and what we are going to do. Which is he suggested that everyone needs more evidence since some of our teammates lacked some evidence for their reflection. Therefore we discussed more on the things that we could add to have enough evidence and reflection for each one of us.

The most important thing that we learned and communicated that we are currently lacking on. Whereas the evidence that everyone seems to have trouble upon their reflection. Though it is going to be difficult for some of us in the group, since they don’t have that much evidence to begin with. So our plan is to discuss everything so that we could add up evidence for the reflection.

I feel somewhat happy, since I already have most of my evidence been covered and just need to focus more on the reflection side. So, I just need to prepare more evidence just in case and finalize my reflection on the managebac.

This stage is mostly focused on the investigation in which we can gain more evidence in the meantime for those who are lacking the evidence needed. So we need to be more communicative with each other so that we could discuss more on what we are going to do in the future and find more evidence needed.

Supporting Evidences : (Photos or videos)

[CAS (Project) Evidence - Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1m9AbeKQdoekHb7yILFn4geVEA4TDSCra?usp=sharing)

Website: https://sites.google.com/svpsmart.sch.id/discorddiscourse/home?authuser=1

Meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6bv3nt3uzo