About
What.
Adlatitude is an idea. The idea that we all need to leave our comfort zones and experiment with something new in order to really understand and interact with the world around us.
Who.
My name is Andre Deutmeyer. A web search reveals a surprising amount of information about me. (probably because my name is uncommon). I dunno what you want to know about me that you can’t find on the web.
But know this, I don’t update this blog as frequently as I would like to… I tend to be quite neglectful and I update in bursts. So sorry.
I am much better with Twitter though.
My personal twitter handle: @drebabels
My edutech related twitter handle: @dtangl
Why.
I taught (yes I am an ex-teacher) for a bit, and during that time I have realized that there is a great void between the way children are taught today and the way that they learn.
The way we teach is exactly like it was when I was in school… and my mother was in school… and my grandmother… and so on. There has been no significant change in the last decades in how we teach our children. And in that there must be something wrong.
Look around and you can see how fast the world is changing. Look around and you can see that how our children play and communicate today and how they did 10 years ago are different.
Today we see a host of technologies emerging that have democratized the web – lending voices to the individual, made the search for information painless, and yet within our classrooms we still use 19th century teaching methods: Book, Chalk, Blackboard.
And it is with that problem in mind that I have created this blog: to give me an outlet for my thoughts on life and technology… and maybe just maybe help bridge the gap and bring 21st century technology to a 20th century classroom.
If you would like to contact me, please feel free to send an email to a.deutmeyer (at) gmail (dot) com. I look forward to hearing from you.