Octavianus
Tech Educator (he/him)
Greetings, and welcome to my story. I am a passionate and dedicated educator in the tech industry, with over six years of experience as a tech mentor. My ultimate goal is to create sustainable and scalable education initiatives that can reach and benefit everyone who needs it the most in their lives.
2018 - Present
Apple Developer Academy @BINUS
During my six-year tenure as a tech mentor, I engaged in numerous projects focused on pedagogy, technology, student community development, and recruitment. This position has been the most rewarding of my career as I witnessed firsthand the potential of individuals to pursue their aspirations.
2017
Apple Foundation Program
As a mentor, I possess extensive experience in executing the foundation of a project from the ground up. My initial knowledge in Swift programming, combined with my pedagogy of challenge-based learning and honed mentoring skills, was acquired at Foundation.
2023
Innovation Cellar
My fellow mentors and I took the initiative to create an online course aimed at middle school students, integrating technology into their school activities. I was responsible for partnering with stakeholders (AI Company) and managing relationships with various schools. Our curriculum emphasizes critical thinking, empathy, collaboration, and technology adoption.
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2023
AR Workshop in Collaboration with iBox
During our collaboration, I conducted a session aimed at creating an Augmented Reality app using Reality Composer and basic coding knowledge, with the ability to launch it directly on mobile devices. The session was designed to cater to individuals with little to no technical background.
2022
Coders Muda
My learning partners and I have taken an initiative to develop an online weekend activity aimed at junior high school students. The program emphasizes critical thinking, teamwork, and computational thinking, with the objective of supporting the upcoming generations to navigate through the uncertainties of the world. I have played a significant role in developing our educational philosophy and curriculum.
Professional Learning Month
Each year, I participate in an annual event where I share my insights with academies worldwide. My topics of discussion range from technology to learning techniques, mentoring, and design.
Disrupted 2021
During the Teachers and Educators Conference held by Sampoerna University, I expressed my profound interest in the field of learning design. The focus of my presentation was centered around the effective implementation and best practices of Laurillard's conversational framework.
2014 - 2017
University life
In addition to the class, I've expanded my software engineering knowledge through freelance projects and part-time work at a software house company.
2010 - 2014
The Sparks
From a curiosity to learn something new, I self taught myself to learn Video editing and motion graphic. As a high school student, i have handle different kind of freelance projects. In 2014, I teach this knowledge to other students that has inspired them to take this as their main career.
Education is personalized, inclusive, and agile
Inclusive despite of everyone background and age. Personalize as everyone learn in different pace. Agile as the world issue are changing rapidly. Those are the type of education I want to create and I believe people's potentials would truly unleash.
Lets collaborate to create better education. You can contact me at oktagandajaya@gmail.com Cheers!
"I don't know how" ; "Don't worry, we'll figure this out and I'll teach you how"; me saying that with innocent face and then followed with my students laughter.
Those sentences are the beginning of my everyday life to learn new stuff and transfer it to my students.
After all what really matters are the thinking process and the feeling of comfortable in learning