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MEDiakitab association, located in Marseille, is in charge of administrating the blog. Contents are a reflection of the activities, analysis and knowledge developped by the network members.

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Alexandria: Girard, the school of the future

The digital in the heart of the school project

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Girard school, one of the bilingual francophone schools of Alexandria, is engaged in the Quality Process “Démarche Qualité” with the CIEP- International Centre for pedagogical Studies of Sevres. Girard hosts more than a thousand students from kindergarten to High School.

In this context, she chose to [...]

Stammering bubbles

Look of Kenza Sefrioui on the Moroccan comics

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The text below, written by Kenza Sefrioui,  is an extract from the issue 31, in June 2013 of Zamane magazine, pp. 92-93.

The pioneer of comics in Morocco has died while the 9th Art is struggling to assert.

” Never again ! ” were the last words by Abdelaziz Mouride in “One starves out the [...]

Reading and culture in disadvantaged areas

New models for public reading

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In many cases, developping equipment dedicated to reading in an area that is not familiar with the practice is a challenge, because the project is not supported by habits nor requests.

In general, developping equipment dedicated to public reading is today part of a changing context toward « hybrid libraries ». They are « hybrid » because of printed [...]

School, digital technology and the oncoming society

Digital technology at school. Yes but how ?

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In this essay, published in 2012 by « Mille et une nuits », the two authors take the statements from three thinkers of the school issue on the role of digital technology at school : Denis Kambouchner, Philippe Meirieu et Bernard Stiegler.

The little book concentrate arguments and analyses that are raised in the [...]

Digital literacy in education

For a smart use of technology at school

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Anne Bresard is a school librarian who teaches in Grande Bastide, a middle school of Marseille. She is also the contact person for digital issues in the school. Since 2005, she has been involved in the exchange projects with schools in Alexandria that have been possible through the implementation of digital technology using chat meetings [...]

The profession of school librarian

From content selection to digital identities

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Anne Bresard is a school librarian who teaches in Grande Bastide, a middle school of Marseille. She is also the contact person for digital issues in the school. Since 2005, she has been involved in the exchange projects with schools in Alexandria that have been possible through the implementation of digital technology using chat meetings [...]

The library, “a place of power”

The experience of parc library in Brasil

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During the workshop that took place in Marseille, in april 2015, and was dealing with culture in popular areas Véra Saboya introduced her 5 years experience of  providing 4 libraries in the city of Rio de Janeiro by the State of Rio. The programme is supplemented by the opening of 14 other libraries in other [...]

Illustration for youth and comic books in Egypt

Two Egyptian artists describe a moving field

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During « Des bulles et des fouilles » meeting, two guest artists, share their view on graphic edition in Egypt. Although their influence are diverse and their style are different, both of them recognize the influence of Egyptian artists from the 1970’s and notice a turning point in Egyptian publishing, in the mid-2000.

Shennawy studied fine arts [...]