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THE HEAD OF THE STATE WANTS TO JUSTICE EXECUTIVE ORDERS

THE HEAD OF THE STATE WANTS TO JUSTICE EXECUTIVE ORDERS

In the Haitian justice system, the Magistrate is responsible for investigating criminal cases the most serious and complex. Independent of executive power, untouchable and never responsible (in theory), he learned to load and discharge, thus ensuring fairness of justice. So it's an investigator to establish the facts and prepare the case for the possible holding of the trial. But this central character of the criminal proceedings in Haiti, considered too powerful by more than one, do not like the President of the Republic. According to him, he should abolish the post of Magistrate's powers and entrust the investigation to prosecutors. And René Magloire, one always comes to the scandal, which played the role of the angel heralds the terrible tsunami that threatens the Haitian justice.

Must remember that the Government Commissioners and their deputies are fully hierarchically and submitted to the Minister of Justice, member of the Executive. This new system would allow men to escape a number of trials as we have seen in recent days ... Completion of this project will be another demonic influence that enhanced the power of justice. And we believe it is essential to know the motivations of the Head of State to want to disappear so the Magistrate. This is another step towards totalitarianism, an aberration, a regression and a legal threat to judicial independence.

The tone was already given by the de facto Vice President of the Court of Cassation in his oration on the occasion of the reopening of the Courts last October 4. He returned to the ranks after being threatened with repeatedly removed by the authority. Platitude! Rene Magloire and to extol the merits of the work of others. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has done work that is worth even when his project was no good recipe in his country. The "Report of Light" has been slavishly copied by a baboon who's not all done to Haiti. There is ... for trial. There is no question of respect for intellectual property under copyright law enshrined. While the debate is heating up in France on the eventual end of the Magistrate, the Elysée is considering to make provision of this supersonic aircraft to facilitate his movements.

The reasons for the removal of Haitian magistrates do not because the real issues are never discussed, for example: the problems of resources, texts and too outdated classification of criminal offenses. How Investigating Judges in the provinces has a company car, computer, operating costs like the Government Commissioners? Sometimes they are forced to pay in their pocket the cost of transporting witnesses residing in remote areas and can not meet the summonses served on them. It is easy to criticize but what have they done for their convenience? Investigative judges are not responsible for the problem of prolonged pretrial detention too, must look elsewhere. And even when it is not a reason not to want their heads. Because, fundamentally, the Instruction maintains a balance between the rights of defense and the need for public action. This confirms that indeed there are people in this government who are scared to death of Justice.

can blame Investigating Judges many abuses but remove them to entrust the investigation to the Statutory Government objectivity ... where will you be when sensitive cases involving members of the government or close to power? It deserves reflection and discussion!

Heidi FORTUNE
Magistrate, Magistrate
Cap-Haitien, Haiti
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Rosh Hashanah: The Day of Judgement. Really?

If there is one Study Jewish thing (with a capital E) tells us, is to not take everything at face value. For some, the firm is even synonymous "I take nothing for granted"

I attended a small few months ago that, given off by a Rabbi Babysitting, perhaps one of the greatest Talmudic French. At one point, Rabbi exposes us that EVEDA Kenaan (a special legal status associated with a non-Jewish servant) is subject to the requirement of Korban Pesach.
Indeed, the eved Kenaan lives in the master's house and is subject to a number of obligations halakhic and therefore, particularly Korban Pesach sacrifice to be the day of Passover, which supreme paradox, represents the ultimate expression of freedom.
short, I personally believe and I therefore call on the rest of the course which is, I suppose, to explain this paradox. Imagine my surprise when a participant asked the exact references of the halakha. Imagine a student Terminale S Einstein ask if it is certain that E = MC ²
And what was my biggest surprise yet when the Master smiled and said with his characteristic accent, "You're right, you're right you want references, I do not of problems. "And he began to look for the precise volume of Shulhan Arukh, opened it and then show it to students who entered a discussion a few subtle attempt to show that this is not necessarily exactly the case .
is a rule of the study: what counts is the pursuit of truth. All social obligations or relationships, of course, useful for life in society, should disappear when you open a Gemara.

What relationship will you tell me with Rosh Hashana? Well this party is that sometimes feels autopilot mode: Start of the year, Chana Tova, Teshuvah, Shofar, Judgement, Fear, 10 days to catch up to Yom Kippur, etc. ... are all words used suitcases full during this period. They have the advantage of creating a special atmosphere, to realize that this is a special stage of the year (the holidays of Tishrei) during which the followers of the regime will Dukhan to execution and for which Treasurers community redoubled attention, waiting impatiently for the result of the best months of the year in terms of turnover.

But as so often, when we start asking questions, we say that frankly, we did perhaps take bladders for lanterns.
Some examples: the Talmud teaches that on Rosh Hashanah, the creator of the world judge the whole world and divided the men into 3 categories. The Tzadikkim, the Righteous, which are inscribed in the Book of Life. The Rechaim the wicked, who are enrolled in the Book of Death. And Beinonim (it looks today, those who must pass the oral, or better still September) that until Yom Kippur to catch up and eventually reach Tzadikkim in the Book of Life.
Although some rabbis are having a field day to explain that we are all Beinonim and it will whip up Kippur to be sure to spend another year on this earth.

Others are content to sweep the metaphor of a backhand just before going to play golf at the Country Club: "all this nonsense, this is still one of these legends alienating the religious opium producers are struggling to disseminate to exercise totalitarian control over the souls and hearts of the naive and uninformed masses ". Well, it will surely improve his handicap Mr. and catch up with Tiger Woods, but what do you want me to do with it?

Is there no way to exercise his critical texts on some of Tradition while taking them seriously as highly confident they convey a sense fruitful?
Well, it turns out that the guy living in my beautiful country 800 years ago obviously have dared to ask a question of pure common sense unimpressed by the establishment (OK, I added a bit on the side Besancenot of the Talmud). Still, the
Tosafists, since it is from them that it is, wonder (Rosh Hashanah 16b): "It turns out that in real life, we see lots of Tzadikim die in the year and Rechaim full of live many more years, which is somewhat contradictory to what they say on the Book of Life ". Obvious question, he to ask, which begins to make us doubt that the literal meaning is most relevant, but in return we open to interpretations more meaningful and tasty (we will not elaborate here, but for those who are interested, all the commentators conventional resume this question: Ramban the Ran , Rabbeinu Yona , etc ... and are synthesized in an article in Siftei Haim's work during the compilation of Rabbi Friedlander ).

Similarly, is it really relevant to think that on Rosh Hashanah is truly a day of trial, with God at his table surrounded by his assessors reviewed as and when each of the defendants?
I have a friend who pushed through the literal sense. Indeed, it is customary not to sleep on Rosh Hashanah so "his mazal, his luck did not sleep during the year" . Some say it is inappropriate to sleep when we will soon stand trial before the King of Kings. My friend thinks he can allow himself to sleep during Rosh Hashanah. The reason? "Ayache, it was early in the alphabet, at noon for me it is folded, I can sleep peacefully for the rest of the party!"

Beyond the joke, is it still valid to keep that image in mind? Several clues lead us
rather to get rid of it. First, the fact that the main names of Rosh Hashanah does not convey the idea:
- Rosh Hashanah, which is the common name of the party and the Talmud under the Treaty of addressing different aspects of legal means Head of the Year. Recall the creation of man and repentance after opening the fault of the Garden of Eden
- Yom Térou the day of the ringtone is the name given by the Torah, obviously related to the primary mitzvah of Rosh Hashanah, the ringing of the Shofar, indispensable tool for revival
souls - Yom Hazikaron, Remembrance Day, the name given by the sages at the party when codified format of the prayer of Rosh Hashanah

short, when the party speaks, it is called Rosh Hashanah , when the Torah speaks of is Yom Térou and pray when the day of Rosh Hashanah is Yom Hazikaron .
While the festival is sometimes called Yom Hadin , the Day of Judgement. But honesty impels us to recognize that the name seems almost "non-essential", never used by the Torah and even ambiguous, as evidenced by the reluctance of halachic sages impacts to consider when it comes to value the concept of "Judgement Day". Without too much space to this subject is somewhat technical, very well covered by the Rabbi CY.Zevin in Moadim BeHalakha (note: all of CY Zevin books are pure wonders), we can cite the following examples:
- it rejects the use of a Shofar horned cow not to recall the fault of the golden calf during the day of Judgement
- we do not say Hallel on Rosh Hashanah: how Jewish people could start singing happily while the King of Kings judge?
- But on the other hand, if some Wise wanted to impose a fast on Rosh Hashana because of the Judgement Day, most makers have formally banned.

What about this? The dimension of the Day of Judgement is clearly a dimension of Rosh Hashanah and it exists in our tradition. But its almost "magical" or "folk" to us. How to resolve this paradox. It is among the
Pr Yeshayhou Leibowitz I found most illuminating answer:

"There are faith deep meaning in the distinction between repentance and Judgement on Rosh Hashanah, say between a conception of repentance as a means of obtaining a favorable ruling and the cancellation of a bad verdict, and one that sees repentance as an end in itself. The Torah has focused attention on the memory, as this is fundamental, "Remembrance Day", that is to say, of repentance, while the tradition has added this concept of Rosh Hashana when the trial is fundamental . (...)
For the believer who seeks the fullness of faith, the meaning of Rosh Hashanah is the reminder of his position before God, and the question being on trial arises every day and every moment . For cons, the unaccomplished man, that is to say most people, it is clear that we can hardly expect him to be engages in self-examination and repentance, the things he is far, every day of the year. He is awakened to these issues at the approach of "austere days," during which, he says, he is judged. However, although it is not that the perfect form of faith, this approach has its place in folk religious world. "

One recognizes the famous distinction made between Leibowitz service of God and interested selfless service of God. For the latter, Rosh Hashanah is a time of recall (from memory) of the place of man in this world before God. His life was not rhythmic by what God has to offer, but capacity and the will of man to serve God regardless of notions such as the benefits or risks of divine punishment. In this context, the notions of Térou, souvenir, existential thrill make sense.
But not everyone has the ability to reach a spiritual level totally disinterested. Hence the introduction of the concept of ruling which, if not perfect, still has its place because it may be the germ of a more robust approach in the future.

As usual, Leibowitz causes, by denigrating totally prayer of Ounetané Tokef he considered the prototype of prayer for the masses, fully making use of mythological and fears over animal rights. Let me give you an excerpt:

"A quiet murmur is heard. The celestial figures stand up, tremble and announced with anguish:" This is the Day of Judgement! "Even the Almighty is called Your front court. All creatures of the world pass before Thee as the shepherd who looks to his flock.
(...) For every creature that moves past you, you fixed the duration of its existence and the circumstances of his destiny that do not depend on his will. On the day of Rosh Hashanah, our fate is written. On the day of Yom Kippur, our fate is sealed.
It was decided:
who disappear during the year and will in the world,
those who will live and who shall die,
those who belong to end of their lives and those who still have time to live.
you determine if one will die by fire, others by water,
those who are affected by war or taken by wounds: famine, earthquake or disease.
established that you will enjoy a peaceful life, happy and worthy, will be honored and prosperous, will experience the agony of wandering, hardship, humiliation and misery.


Honestly for Sephardim, provocation falls a bit flat because this prayer is not recited routinely and it is nothing special in terms of emotional development.
But my wife, hard-Ashkenazi, was deeply outraged. For her and many of his coreligionists, he is the epitome of the Rosh Hashanah Tefillah: where Hazan crying the most, where everyone is terrified, where people have little imagining, such as Gauls of Asterix, the sky will fall on their head.

Leibowitz is very strict on this prayer because it removes the man in the true meaning of Rosh Hashanah (re) realize that the return to God is an end in itself, it passes the point of a valiant existence devoted to God and not idols (golf, working life, high society, fear of death, etc. ...) and that the concepts of rewards or punishments are incidental.

vast program for this year, I wish you smooth and happy!

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(Small) travel within American Judaism. Episode 1: Chicago

Ten days in the United States, Chicago (for professional reasons) and then in New York (for the kif), allowed me to come back with a few scraps of finer understanding of American Jewry. Make some surprising discoveries, confirmed some a priori, while flying in the face of other beliefs. Obviously, everything that follows is often subjective and open to debate.

Chicago

Before my aircraft landed on the runways at Chicago O'Hare, I got a rattrapge film in good and due form with the VOD system of the aircraft. And put me in the leg on American Jewry, I chose to be accompanied by the Coen brothers and their last film "A Serious Man" . I will try to do a review later, but one thing is sure, he thought a lot about the question: Does Judaism was transformed by the massive transplantation of Jews from Eastern Europe Eastern lands New World? Obviously, the answer not fail to be positive, but to try to understand it better, we must plunge.

Nevermind week job to go directly to the need to spend Shabbat in Chicago.

Above all, do not repeat the mistakes already made in 2003 to spend a Shabbat in a large hotel in the Loop, historical and tourist center of Chicago. AC, I have already given a few years ago: through Priceline (if you do not know, I recommend this site to find a great hotel bargain prices to a few days of your trip), the Palmer House Hilton Chicago for less than $ 70 night. Eat kosher? Just ask at reception that you order kosher plates (of course duly charged), which will take you if you do not know anyone nearby or if you do not get to the nearest Chabad .

Then things get complicated. Imagine that on Saturday morning, you want to go to the nearest synagogue. You say very candidly "I'm right in the center, the synagogue is not what will be missed, especially in the 3rd American Jewish city with nearly 300,000 Jews! ". Well this is not so simple. First, you must be well known to the fragmentation of American Judaism. If you do not want to appear in the Assembly Reconstructionist Hebrew Gays and Lesbians, or worse (because at least they assume a particular identity) among the hippies in mixing guitar, Gospel, proclamations of love worthy of Eddie Murphy and conviction to represent the future of Judaism, we will have to mobilize your detective skills to find a Schule consistent with the idea that you get to the Halacha. After the initial surprise of not finding myself with myriads oratories in the Loop, I finally found next to the hotel, the "Chicago Loop Synagogue " on South Clark Street. A very beautiful architectural point of view, on several levels, with the names of major donors clearly shown, one senses America with its relaxed compared vis-à-vis Judaism and its money well integrated and longstanding in American society.

Following is more surprising in this room of hundreds of places, we do find that 30 or 40 people for to the office! The reason (I suspect that for some time now)? Jews working in the Loop, but do not live there. The synagogue is very active on weekdays, but very little traffic on Shabbat. Only a sweet kiddush after the service that does not have me satisfied and I'm back at the hotel early in the afternoon ... luckily the city is beautiful and you can enjoy beautiful walks, especially summer!

Back to 2010: this time, no errors. Call a friend I had not seen for over 10 years but lived Chicago and confirms me : "Jews live in two main areas: West Rogers Park which is still in Chicago and Skokie, which is a town outside of Chicago." The reason is obvious: when you start a family, we will search for schools, the areas most consistent and specific infrastructure that is not offered by the center, rather focus on business and tourism. Go then to West Rogers Park. The cityscape is completely different: one is more on Desperate Housewives with residential houses that are not more than 2 storeys along street grid, as in "Mad Men" with its skyscrapers and bustle.

Problem: there are no hotels. My friend then gave me something: the Jewish retirement home in West Rogers Park provides rooms for travelers. For $ 75 a night, it's worth it. Especially when we have the opportunity to admire the quality of the nursing home: a big, clean, lively atmosphere in a Jewish (kosher meals, offices, courts, etc ...) and welcoming to tourists ...

Friday night arrives, looking for an office! It is in the Loop is obvious: dozens of schule of all persuasions succeed on the Internet: Reformed, Conservative, Orthodox, Lubavitch, Sephardic (with even a Moroccan community!) a few blocks of each other. I choose KINS who seems to be a major Orthodox communities in the area, midway between my "hotel" and my friend whom I'll have dinner. Not much to say except that the building is imposing and well integrated into the neighborhood. The rabbi is casual, with a white Panama on his head and a light suit. We go out there and surprise people wear! It is indeed a Eruv in West Rogers Park (the Eruv is a method to circumvent the ban on wearing one in public domain on the Sabbath. Including the ability to go out in a stroller, something prohibited without Eruv). Halakhic, the subject is controversial, I actually bought in New York a little monograph on the subject very well done which I will try to do a little review. Still, the question arises: can we really count on an Eruv perimeter as large as West Rogers Park and with a sufficient degree of reliability? On the other hand, why not see an Eruv is radically changing the perception that Jews (and families) have Shabbat, when at last it is possible to go out and make friendly visits or even family with young children?

Friday night meal with my friends (whom I thank again warmly welcomed and guided me in this trip) and very interesting exchanges on the lives of young French full transplanted Chicago. Regrets first on the poverty of the offer "intellectual" approach to Judaism in France. Difficulties in finding places and teachers able to convey an authentic Judaism but also intellectually demanding than in effect at the graduate level profane. It is true that from this point of view, the United States several steps ahead and that if France was a pioneer in the '70s with Levinas, Neher or Manitou is now a bit behind. Most followers of Manitou (who had managed to address the problem of articulation between Jewish thought and authentic materials and especially metaphysical imperatives of the modern world) are now in Israel, and Levinas has left few students able to mobilize both resources philosophical level and a strong commitment to the texts of the tradition Jewish (Benny Levy is one but also aired his teaching in Israel). Finding nevertheless there are still some hidden gems as well the Yeshiva Student of Rav Zyzek in Paris or that of Rabbi Eliyahu Abitbol Strasbourg or more publicized in a completely different style, as the initiatives taken by Rabbi Elie Lemmel through its association Lev.

A simple matching United States between work life and demands a halachic Jew. During my one-week training in Chicago, no problem to receive kosher meals provided courtesy of the Learning Center even keep his kippa including in the workplace (I personally did not, forcing French culture, but I saw an American custody without problem, as do Sikhs with their impressive turban). But beware, all is not rosy either: there are still difficulties, of course, primarily related to Shabbat observance in the winter. And make no mistake, it is easier to negotiate some arrangements discrete jobs in high-level positions in more standardized. In fact, if we give a rational reason to the fact that Jews are choosing more frequently than the rest of people a career in Entrepeneurship and the professions, it is certainly for flexibility in the schedule that these jobs provide, essential to a harmonious balance between work and religious beliefs.

The next day my friend was asked by a Chabad couple who very kindly agreed to receive me well. Branch Office Lubavitch therefore, beginning as of course after 9.30am (this does not change) and very pleasant. A valuable discovery: the Chumash published by Kol Menachem publisher. I can not tell you that without a digression on "Artscroll Revolution," as they say up there and as the post begins to be long, we'll do that in Episode 2 (promised in not too long).

Happy holidays to all!

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EQUALITY OF ARMS

EQUALITY OF ARMS

Equality of arms is a principle that ensures a balance between defense and prosecution in criminal trials, so that the accused has reasonable opportunity to present his case, there including per-proven in court under conditions which do not place a substantial disadvantage compared to his opponent, the Public Prosecutor. Obviously, this rule of conduct paralegal is a broader aspect of the concept of a fair trial before an independent and impartial. But how to measure if the arms are equal between a defendant who knows the truth but do not have the police and public prosecution that has public power, but must seek and demonstrate what is the truth? How indeed accept this principle when the Prosecution is almost a second judge in the trial?

configuration even in our courtrooms placed over the accused. And more surprising still is the right granted to him to directly question the defendant or witnesses without going through the head judge for this possibility is not given to defense counsel. However, the prosecution has the freedom to tilt in favor of the trial because the testimony of the accused and witnesses are the determining factors on which the judge will be based headquarters to train and base its conclusion on the case before it ... where the facts of the hearing. So it is like a blank check authorizing the Legal Department to perform all sorts of intimidation and psychological pressure on the accused, already in a weak position. It may even outside the rules of professional conduct and ethics require him to plead guilty, take it to accuse other people or to extract a confession with promises of excuses or extenuating circumstances, oftentimes, unfulfilled. When we know that some representatives of the Public Ministry are unconcerned about the morality of means used to achieve their goal. No! In practice, the principle of equality of arms does not exist and never existed in criminal law in Haiti.

How to understand your opponent has the authority to arrest you, send you to jail and then keep for a while and then you continue to court? Even when, previously, it is appealed before the Dean in accordance with Articles 26, 26-1 and 26-2 of the Constitution, to address the illegal and arbitrary arrest or detention, or it does not attend the hearing and reversed the court which can take place properly, or it comes to hearing and ignored the decision "On behalf of the Republic "by the court in favor of the accused. Already, he does not even understand that the prosecution is his opponent ... so, like him, a party to the suit, he takes it to a judge. Now, what are we talking about? Equal opportunity, perhaps? Unfortunately, neither the National Association of Magistrates and Bars of the Republic nor civil society and public opinion have never denounced the ugliness of our legal system or even to question them.

Theoretically, trial, and particularly the criminal trial is not a fight where each party has one goal: to win. The mission of the Public Ministry is not to win or obtain the conviction of the accused or defendant, but to arrive at the truth and to deduce the consequences, whether positive or negative victims or defendants. A trial exists to contribute to justice and peace among men, not the victory and defeat each other. In this sense ... the fighting talk, the perfidious behavior, anti social and evil are not suitable for men of their laws ... are public prosecutors or lawyers.


Heidi FORTUNE
Magistrate, Magistrate
Cap-Haitien, Haiti, July 18, 2010
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FAILURE OF REFORM LAW

FAILURE OF REFORM

Before it starts, judicial reform is already in the wall. It does not really take into account what must be, preferring rather superficial and cosmetic improvements. It goes in line with the conservatism of Haiti whose motto is "mostly no change in depth." It is once again the inadequacy of the spirit land close to our leaders to modernity that has highlighted. The same methods, the same habits, the same collusion are there. Haitian law is just as archaic as feudal. Yet, a profound change was needed there and real and undeniable.

To reform, we must identify the objective and the means to get there. But to identify the target, it is still necessary to ask the right questions. That is two and half years that the reform process is initiated at the Haitian justice and no major changes, no apparent impact has been felt by this passage. Today we witnessing the bitter failure of a reform which, until now, does not materialize on the ground. The ills of our judicial system are so numerous that even electromagnetic ray is not sufficient to remedy the situation.

reform, not only to provide the heads of courts and vehicle operating costs, we must also think of police officers and magistrates who mainly represent the driving force and core of the criminal justice system. It should be understood that the Dean and the Commissioner of the Government are in no way involved in the investigation actual criminal. The reform is not to grant some judges close to the power of small benefits, it's not just the salary adjustment is to have a justice system that responds quickly and effectively to the wishes of individuals . Reform requires a redefinition of the role of hardwood, a better means of justice, the professionalization and specialization of magistrates, risk premiums, benefits for judges and strengthening the continuity of public service justice.

With the creation of the School of Magistrates, we should review the current method of appointment Magistrates and dedicate their tenure effective in every sense of the word. Judicial reform should take into account the revision of our code of laws, simplifying the procedure for divorce by mutual consent by removing the mandatory hearing before the judge when there is no dependent child. The reform should promote collegiality of Judges in particular cases and think the decriminalization (except in cases of insolvency or recurrence) of certain offenses such as: litigation of intellectual property and defamation. The reform should also remove the presence of the Ministry Public civil trial and simplify procedures by developing alternative settlements. Conciliation and mediation should also be strengthened. A participatory process of negotiation assisted by a lawyer would be created and given by the lawyer to his client. If unsuccessful, the case would be forwarded to a court. Finally, the reform should advocate in the criminal trial of simplified procedures to plead guilty (appearance on Plea without any indictment) and propose strengthening the competence of judges. The Executive

shows no willingness to improve justice or to improve its effectiveness and visibility. He had to think about building real courthouse where citizens find the conciliation, mediation, civil and criminal legal advice for free, one-stop registry and a computer network connected to Internet for Magistrates. Floundering and flapping in the water does not mean we are trying to swim. In other words, there is a difference between activate and accomplish something worthwhile. It is obvious that people belonging to the Commission for the Reform of Law and Justice (CRDJ) have no new vision ... just like the government that appointed them elsewhere. And as proof, the so-called reform has finally given birth to a mouse. Believe us, it will be questioned shortly to deadlock. And to avoid that ... discussions are open. Otherwise, it will therefore be with for a long time ... for better and mostly for worse.


Heidi FORTUNE
Magistrate, Magistrate
Cap-Haitien, Haiti, May 15, 2010 This

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INDECENT

AN INDECENT ACT

Meeting separately extraordinary hearing, a majority of members Senators and reactionary, mediocre, without conviction and without morals passed a wicked law, indecent, anti-democratic and dangerous catastrophic whose sole purpose is to enable the Head of State to act outside the Constitution as well it seems without being accountable for its management. The President wanted his act and he has obtained through servile mandarins and chameleons, mostly in petticoats who have supported the adoption of the text. To justify their behavior sold, they state that this law called "emergency legislation" was vital for the country. Hallelujah! Crazy who believes it! Gangrene that kills our democracy is driven by the very people who represent it.

The dangers to which the Act exposes us are so numerous that the alarm must be taken now before it's too late if not already. We do not like the Haitian people after having lived what he lived. It is choking or even sacrifice their freedoms for the benefit of private interests. Finally, what country do we want to rebuild? Is this a modern country that allows citizens to operate in an environment with equal dignity and face the problems of everyday life, or rather a country / filter to sit elitism a bad omen when it is permissible to choose boyfriends villains at the expense of the majority removed from its smallest citizens' aspirations? These are questions that every Haitian should legitimately ask. Unfortunately, the sterility of our intellectual elites is clear and looks like a voluntarism resignation of a task that falls naturally. This elite without clearly defined project does not propose a path of hope for young people. And how surprising it is difficult to hear and organize ?

If the country does not want this law, it must convey a clear and strong. For some, the Emergency Law is none other than the preliminary phase of a project in the making. For others, it is the fruit of an apprentice dictator who hopes to retain power beyond its constitutional mandate while playing with a system he knows well and he wants to change the rules that it will be too favorable long term. Anyway, the reasons which prompted the Executive to take this law are not clearly displayed, which is disturbing to think. Is it to improve the living conditions of population languished promises-crap? Is it to end the social misery and desolation caused by the earthquake of January 12, 2010? How not to fantasize over when you do not know the true intentions of the Supreme Head of the Judiciary? This is not the certainty that crazy but doubt. And among the reasons that exist to oppose the Emergency Law, the largest is the vagueness that surrounds it.

After the disaster, the imperative is to change attitudes and methods of governance gold so far, the same old story repeats itself: corruption, impunity and little arrangements between friends, formal balance of power ... that is why nothing should be expected from this legislation. Four months later, the population is in the street, and the hurricane season that approach does nothing to fix the situation. Meanwhile, the President of the Republic multiplies its efforts unconstitutional. Fairly surprising and inconsistent, the amendment of Article 232 of the current electoral law so proposed is likely to create distortions hardly qualify. The Supreme Court should have its say ...


Heidi FORTUNE
Magistrate, Magistrate
Cap-Haitien, Haiti, May 9, 2010

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The exodus from Egypt: Will Hunting

In reading some comments before the feast of Passover, I came across an interesting question raised by the Siftei Haim. The Siftei Haim is a book that collects the actions of Rabbi Chaim Friedlander former Mashguiah (Director spiritual) of the prestigious Yeshiva Poniowicz.

Student of Rav Dessler, a moralist whose works are known, but it resumed this specificity by incorporating acquired and strict rationalists of the great tradition of learning Lithuanian.

The question is this: in the Haggadah of Pesach, we read "And even if we were all sages, or subtle intellects of veterans, we would still have the mitzvah of telling the Exodus" . Why this phrase? Is there something that might have us believe that this could be? Wise would not have a duty to tell the episode the exodus from Egypt during the Seder night?

Indeed. If the mitzvah of remembering the Exodus from Egytpte (Zakhor) applies to everyone and everywhere, the Mitzvah of telling (Lesaper) applies only to the Seder night. And you might think, at the sight of the verse that imposes this mitzvah, it only applies to one who is not aware of the extraordinary event has made the transition to freedom: "And you shall tell your son (...) what God has done that day ... " .

This mitzvah seems to involve an exchange involving a transmission of facts and the discovery of a historic event. Anyone who would already know this event would be delivered naturally. Sage could not be compelled to Passover seder. That's what
wishes to challenge the Haggadah. For what is seen in "Would we all Wise ,...", is the" All ". Let there be Wise to the Seder table, it can happen. But the requirement that they be made to initiate the exchange and take with the least language wise remain, one can easily understand.

But what the Haggadah says, is that even if there was anyone at the table ignoring, should still tell the story of the exodus from Egypt. Interpretation directly confirmed by the history of the 5 Elders participating in the Seder and discussing the Exodus all night (all of course had a perfect knowledge of the subject and had no one to pass since it is well reported in this story that their students did not arrive until dawn).

Confirmed also by the Halacha, which indicates that a single person for the Seder should still be sure to read the Haggadah and work on the event of the Exodus from Egypt.

The question then is obvious: if the mitzvah is not a transmission job, what is it? Work on oneself? Something more personal? The answer given by Rabbi Friedlander is based on a familiar formula: "As if he was himself out of Egypt" . The Mitzvah is not a story that took place disembodied (or not) there are over 3000 years, but to update this event and find a way to make it alive, that is to say feeder for its existence.

This comment reminds me immediately to a beautiful movie from Gus Van Sant: Will Hunting. This is the story of a young man working as household MIT the temple of science in the United States and who, within a work night, so incredibly simple fixes a math problem out of the reach of the best brains in the world. Sewing up his academic genius, in all material discovered, but coupled with a chronic inability to project into the future and build a strong and balanced with other dogs and especially with a woman. Yet
Will Hunting knows about it. He knows discourse on everything. But he did not. It does not bind its interiority. That sees Robin Williams plays his psychologist in the movie:

"So if I speak of art, you got me swinging a summary of each art book ever written on the subject. Michelangelo You know stuff about him. The work of his life, his political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientation, all that stuff ... but I bet this one breathes in the Sistine Chapel, his smell, you know. You can not know what it's like to look up at the magnificent ceiling. You know.

If I tell you to tell me about women, you 'll give me a topo on the women you loved the most. You it is perhaps even come to fuck sometimes. But you will not know me describe how it feels to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy.

If I made you talk about the war, Shakespeare is probably all you would quote me: "once more unto the breach my friends!" But you have not experienced war. You never held against you, your best friend. You did not see until the last gasping breath with a look that pleads.

If I'm talking about love, you'll probably recite a sonnet. But you have not known a woman to whom you have felt vulnerable. A woman who tossed thee spread at a glance. As if God had sent an angel on earth for you ... to tear the depths of hell. And you do not know what it means to be his angel to her. And know that the love you have for her is eternal. "

is the paradox repeatedly observed: know a concept, a concept does not do an experiment. A classic example of which Heidegger status greatest philosopher of the twentieth century did not prevent him from hanging out with the Nazi party. On a more trivial know that something is good to realize we do not stop procrastinating, finding all sorts of excuses for not rational to do it.

In another development, namely that the Holocaust existed, participate in commemorations does not preclude a priori a reproduction of the phenomenon. Losing someone is one thing in our lives ultimately trivial and statistically inevitable for every man on earth. But the live experience is totally, radically different in that it involves our lives deep within ourselves.

This is almost the whole point of Judaism: Torah, Talmud do not read, they are not objects of knowledge that should one day be a comprehensive understanding. These are the main supports for an experiment called the Study. Bind itself to choose a master, study win in front of someone else who was not necessarily the same vision of a substantive issue, that is the foundational experience of Jewish life. Each of us can claim to be free: after all, we live in a democracy, far from the dictatorships of the past, some even within the Land of Israel as a Jewish national structure, in short, who dare say that we would still cause Freedom except for folklore?

Only by confronting it with others by living this experience with his guts, it is possible to detect new forms of slavery which we have an imperative duty to liberate us.

Hag Sameah all and dare to become Will Hunting (at the end of the film of course ....

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Training in information literacy: the brain drain or brain leaking?

Training in information literacy

Brain drain or brain leaking?

We deplore the brain drain. We complain that our brains that have been well trained to go elsewhere to enjoy their skills. But what has caused this brain drain? And most importantly, the brain drain does not they hide another leak, that of the brain instead of fleeing fleeing?

It is therefore to examine the concepts of intelligence, performance and strategy. And how to train someone otherwise than by swimming in a tight brain fulfilling a social universe? In sum, what place is training in information literacy in the formation of brain informed?

1) intelligence, performance and strategy

1.1) The learner moves through the mastery of information

learner, learning to learn, is a key concept that students, youth and even young adults trying to acquire and try to master. Learning to learn is how to save time in their learning, accelerate process and storage strategy. The learner is accelerate and improve the performance of his brain by using learning strategies less tiring and less burdensome.
But how to learn to learn properly? How to develop these learning methods that seem to be magic, fantasy or a miracle? Learning to learn requires not only a personal work (to develop its own cognitive strategy) but also by training "general" in these techniques and strategies.
Learning to learn is by nature intransdisciplinaire (neologism and contraction intradisciplinary transdisciplinary), that is to say that every teacher, every teaching act, each educational activity, can help them learn to learn. Pedagogy is the primordial act of the learner. However, the learner can not merely pedagogical work, interactivity and interactor may be. The learner goes through a personal act of collective action (methodological exchanges more or less formal debates, discussions, group exercises, etc..) And "chapeautage" by educators and trainers especially effective and efficient.
Specifically, training in information literacy education provides a useful, indispensable the learner. Learning to control information, is learning to identify, look, observe, choose, choose, sort, select what is useful from a cluster of more or less useful information. Learning to control information can acquire learning strategies that are improving gradually as their solicitations. Through training in information literacy, it is not only to acquire knowledge and skills infodocumentaires, but rather to discover strategies to create real and expensive Swiss mental compasses. Faced with a problem situation (a mass of information including misinformation abound, unreliable information, outdated information, etc..), The student must learn to learn, learn how to, how to act, how to react and how to integrate this learning into a genuine knowledge? The student will discover and strategies, test its assumptions (is it effective? I Manage my time well? What I chose is it fair and appropriate?), Validate, confirm (by testing and checking them) and, ultimately, improve, improve. Training in information literacy is a continuous learning, infinite: it is towards this infinite becoming faster and especially more effectively. The problem of information overload, misinformation, malinformation-is even more important to approach it based universally transferable skills, not only in professional life but also in personal life.

1.2) Knowledge, skills and attitudes

skills are key engines of common knowledge in the brain: what to pack and where in the brain. How to select useful information is to avoid unnecessary build knowledge or worse, erroneous: the déconnaissances. The déconnaissances rely on misinformation even if they are attached to real information, whether relevant or not. Déconnaissances these are all the more serious whether melting désavoirs. These are then propagated désavoirs by the subject, sure of himself, and taken as information from other matters which may be based in as many déconnaissances désavoirs and depending on the degree of credibility and conviction of the holder of such désavoirs.
It is not enough to be competent, he must have knowledge. This knowledge knowledge that will enable the subject not only expertise but also knowledge. This builds on the growing and its integration into a social environment. The National Education functions to develop citizens who can think critically and a common culture and personal wealth who founded the student's identity and inclusion in society. Thus, training in information literacy is not an end in itself. It is a perpetual step that helps to engage and establish knowledge.
addition to these skills, this knowledge is a set of social attitudes that the subject should develop. These attitudes is to listen, learn speak, know win, know how to change your mind, in short, be adaptable.

1.3) Be smart, not only be cultivated!

intelligence can not be confined to culture, far from it. Intelligence is a combination of resourcefulness, culture, knowledge, attitudes, or manipulation.
an aside on the parallel I draw between intelligence and handling: in our societies, we must learn to fend for yourself to get what we want. Manipulate it to use stratagems that some describe as immoral, to achieve its purposes. However, we saw that the learner, this "ability" who founded the powerful brains (we will return later), through the development of learning strategies. The manipulation is a learning strategy. No knowledge or learning skills such as training in information literacy, but a behavioral learning: developing a social attitude, knowing how to win or place in society.
be intelligent, this is equivalent to first have an effective brain. This means that we have developed strategies for learning "exceptional" that can retain information easily, comfortably with less effort.
be intelligent, it is then to have reliable knowledge, strong and easily redevelopment. Having this knowledge is constructed and constructing through these learning strategies are perfecting day.
be intelligent, it also depends on the adoption of appropriate attitudes. Knowing what to say when, how, where and to whom and why.
Adaptability is the key word intelligence. Being smart means being this actor in role change continuously. This is especially an excellent actor, that is to say, roles controlled at appropriate times: namely how to act and react according to the people with whom one is and the context in which it is located.
So if we want to develop future intelligent subjects, it should work on all items listed above. Without going to the handling, train control information is the job for learning strategies based core is perfecting over the life of the subject. This ensures that the brains of young people fleeing ...

2) To bathe a brain in a tight social universe fulfilling

2.1) Build tight brain

Training young people is to enable the company to evolve and offer these young people the opportunity to integrate and flourish in society. Also, it is necessary to offer young people a sufficient body to prevent leakage of knowledge and knowledge construction defects. We will not go into the properties of the cognitive functioning of the student, but in the packaging that houses the knowledge, skills and abilities. This package must necessarily be strong and "resilient" to withstand any content that is enriched by the day. To develop a package of quality, unadorned, it is necessary to build a continuous and evolutionary learnance: a continuum from the smallest age until the end of life must be put in place. But this package could break at any time if the learning mechanisms are not controlled. Therefore, the role of teachers and educators is to help the subject to construct its own package by informing and forming strategies of knowledge to learn. To learn, the subject must first understand. It is therefore necessary that the intellectual construction makes sense for him. This happens not by presentations from academic theory, but in helping and accompanying in their learning by presenting learning techniques and helping to implement them.
We talk about learning techniques. But get out of learning as information integration and transform information, considering learning as a set of factors. To learn properly, in addition to learning techniques and strategies, we must consider the conditions for learning. This amounts to considering the conditions external to the student himself as the learning environment, the living subject, the potential "sociocultural opportunity" offered by the particular close to the subject through outings, various intellectual contacts (note the interest of the school in this cultural openness!), reports from the subject with other subjects, etc..
Atmosphere, group phenomena, social relations, socio-cultural environment of the student are all factors that facilitate or factors that inhibit learning, even if the subject has the learning strategies the most advanced . Besides these external factors, there are factors internal to the subject. We thus find the will, courage, perseverance but also the baggage of the original subject. By original, I mean the basic skills that the subject has been built through his meetings, his contacts, his learning, etc.. Thus, building a tight-induced brain work of the subject itself with the help of teachers, educators and doctors eventually (in case of failure due to a disability, but I will not go into the consideration of topics such as disabilities about is complex and deserves a particular development). Build a waterproof
brain also requires an environment conducive to learning. This ideal environment is reflected in our school classes. The student was indeed aware that there is to learn: it is therefore switched its strategies for learning, new experiences, etc.. The student, in this context, is interacting with other students and can build critical thinking and discuss learning strategies. The student is interacting with professionals who help him learn to learn, which help to experiment, who accompany him in his errors, which assist to solve problem situations, etc.. The student is also in an environment designed for learning: a framework class strong discipline, rules, etc..

2.2) Plugging brains failed

Build tight brain is a step essential to build individual citizens able to learn throughout their lives. But it may be that some minds were never sealed, either by accident of life, or because the learning strategies, effective time, not enough in parallel to the evolution of matter in its environment. Or, simply because of adolescence ...
Specifically, what is a failing brain? This subject does not learn as well as before. It is a brain that no longer records. It is a brain that stops at a "t", which will pause, standby mode, or in saving energy. " Previous knowledge and skills, integrated, are obviously not lost. But it is not enough, the topic is "inhibited". The main cause of this inhibition: adolescence. Adolescence is an awkward moment where the subject grows, evolves. This disruption is essential and normal. But such developments it creates both physical and mental learning processes that are no longer on the front of the stage but in the background. Speaking of faulty brain seems extremely pejorative, but it is a failure in the strict sense: learning is lacking. This failure is due to laziness cognitive, the intellectual rebellion, the mental break.
So how close these brain failed? How to make learning to learn is not set aside and continue to work? this is the mission of education and adult education: to develop educational strategies to continue to ensure that students are mobilizing their knowledge, skills and attitudes and continue to run their team of learners . There is no magic formula, these instructional strategies vary according to students. However, this mission is essential. Adolescence is a key period which are based techniques and learning strategies that are the foundation of the future construction of knowledge of future citizens.

2.3) Brains leaking or flee

Once the brain well packaged with a mechanism of knowledge construction developed, evolved and evolving, it should be working. Being mentally active is essential in our societies. Our brains are being continually test: no one can claim to be intellectually frustrated. So why some brains they flee? Why after having built a powerful learning process they tend brains from? The answer is simple: the subjects, if properly trained, inform with incredibly efficient. And they quickly understood that they therefore flourish even more. But beware of false promises that can make them ...
The brain drain is extremely damaging. Detrimental to the popular knowledge transfer between individuals, even if theoretically knowledge has no boundaries (the border of the tongue is yet pregnant) and can jump from place to place.
addition to brain drain, we question the techniques, strategies and methods of learning elsewhere. Where is France by example? Where is the problem? The problem is a focus on knowledge and / or skills and / or attitudes. However, it should work on the construction of such knowledge as we have seen previously. Once the basic construction completed, the subject is fed according to their interests but above all he eats better, more efficiently and with even more fun! The pleasure here is the key word of knowledge. If you take pleasure in learning, if you take pleasure in implementing these knowledge, skills and attitudes, and if you take pleasure in continually learning, so why run away?

Learning to learn necessarily involves the acquisition of knowledge and skills. Training in information literacy is an essential in the construction of learning to learn. Learning to learn is essential to integrate and flourish in a society increasingly demanding. But if some flee, it is certainly not because of the training they had. So how to keep those brains? How to ensure that knowledge is not the preserve of a caste of intellectuals? How to ensure that these well-formed heads reciprocate to those who succeed them?

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Youth and ICT: e-language blogs and social networks between

Youth and ICT: e-language blogs and social networks between
Or the principle of idiocy compounded by young ICT

Preamble: Young people are idiots. ICTs are worse. So Young + ICT j'vous not even tell what it can give ... uh if a part of our society. Luckily we adults are here to raise the level!

"Youth is more c'que was!" Why do young people have changed? Did they have reason to change? What the origins of these changes? But what change do we speak?
(R) digital evolution leads to other ways to communicate and even learn.
So now, what uses of ICT were young? And in all this, where is the young? Is there an actor or victim (probably 2) of these developments? Where is the role of education and teaching? How education and instruction must change?

1) Young people: lazy, illiterate idiots who think only play

But why young people are there ? They do nothing, want nothing to do. They are illiterate, even illiterate so they are lazy address learning. They are idiots: they understand nothing, see no further than their noses ... and even when they know where their nose!
So was the Internet revolution for young people: they can now fulfill all their "obligations" of young people through the Internet. They learn through God Google, they communicate through the fairy MSN, they are grown in doses of Wikipedia, ... But what are they complaining about?
It complains that young slacker, slacker ever. Much before he wrote articles on blogs filled with spelling mistakes on topics as useful as the stupidity of the teacher-librarian who does not know what to say "shush!", as now he is content of 3-4 words on social networks like Facebook or twitter. Dirty young, they were already there before and they make even less now: conclusion, young people are less than nothing!

1.1) Social networks: the ultimate treat young
Young people do not eat, they think only watch TV and play on their computer or game console. Wrong! Young people are very very greedy: they call and ask for more of Facebook and Twitter. S'teplait Dad! Another 5 minutes p'tites fésbouc! Note to affix to the fridge: Buy Facebook.

- A network sauce what? Ha! Fessbouk!
Talk to a youth social networking and he will stare at you dumbstruck. Talk to a youth of Facebook or Twitter and his eyes light up. You will sparkle throughout the galaxy in his eyes. You'll even see a tear on her cheek casting. Yes, young love brands, trademarks and right on the Internet too. So no, the youth is not ignorant, it's just that instead of using a common name, it uses a mark. Yes the young knows many things, and he knows that fessbouk twitter is not the same, he knows that dahu was captured in Vittel March 6, 2010 ("it's Alfred, my friend 5 4 who wrote about Twitter!"), he knows that even the King of France married Jeanne d'Arc. Hehe, it is the intelligent young! Fortunately, the networks soc ... uh as Facebook, Twitter & Co. are eh!

- Blogs are has-been
You have a blog to do as of jeun's? Too late! Now it's outdated. It's not fast enough. Indeed, the young in a hurry, he did not have time to write. Then write an article on a blog, even a few sentences, it takes too much time. Fortunately, the angels Facebook and Twitter have been there. One word, one click is hop online. 1 second, 2 seconds, hop it was "twittered" 514 times. 1 minute, 2 minutes, hop the whole of France knows my Twitter message: "I'm home tata suzanne, she gave me a good cake." Fortunately qu'y'a it, otherwise nobody would ever know I was in tata Suzanne!

- I offer my personal life who wants to!
Same problem as those encountered for blogs. Young people do not realize that anyone can access their twit or facebook status (even if one can block some features ...). So we can literally track down a young, especially young people are very fond of these networks. Just take all the messages that young and can draw his schedule more or less exhaustively. But besides the schedule, you can enter directly into the brain of the young. Roh I went to tata suzanne, but his cake was really not good. Bizarre that he had never come, and if Uncle Aunty Suzanne wrong? This is even more serious that the publication is in real time and that young people leaving messages from their computers and mobile phones.

- The newspaper extimate young
The diaries are now obsolete although some young people still retain and nurture a secret under their pillow. Now, ICT has enabled extimiser these diaries. This requires social networks (we have seen, this was before blogs). What is even worse is that before young people wrote their diaries reflecting on the correct sentence to original twists. Now it is plain text: "fe spider beetle shit, cass'toi pov'con. The idea is the same for sure, so why bother to embroider as politicians drowners fish and specialists around the shoot Pot ...

1.2) Internet is full of resources, not as young!
Young not using the Internet as it should, that is to say, intelligently, with a critical distance. But did they really need, so they use only the "classic" web knowledge (in addition to the social networks mentioned above) Google, Wikipedia, MSN?

- Oh God forgive Google, I've blasphemed by saying or Bing Bing!
Young people are faithful. Young people are believers. Young people are practitioners. Young a cult God Google. Here are some testimonials we could have heard here and there:
"Google has been there when I needed it. My math teacher asked me to explain the theorem Pete Al Gore. Google brought me the illumination I needed: it was not Pete's theorem Al Gore, but not the election of Albert Gore.
"My father asked me to go elsewhere if there was. I searched on Google Earth and have found that it was not elsewhere. I could answer in the next hour "
" One day I was lost. I did not know what to do. I searched for 'game' Google. Since I found my way: I play Dark Orbit "
" It's a buddy in my class who told me about Google. He told me it was all thanks to that. I did not believe him, until I tried. Since I can not do without "
" My friends and I meet every Saturday to try Google. All we seek, we find it. Long live Google! "
Testimonials surprising? Not really, listen to what you hear when young people are on the Internet. Or, dare the question" What is Google? ". It's a safe bet that you'll eligible for one or other of the above quotations. God Google revolutionized our practice. He said all the truths. It is So with the truth. Google god, I worship you ... ahem uh retype us. Google is a false mirror of absolute knowledge. We think they see him as the universal, universality, universalism, encyclopedism total. However, Google also found that although the false true, the evil that the good, the subjective and objective, reflected that the stupid, etc..

- Wikipedia: absolute knowledge
A place worship, a famous character, a philosophical concept, etc.. Wikipedia has the answer. Wikipedia is that? We do. We who participate in the development of this encyclopedia. Based on the principle of self-correction, Wikipedia seems as if not more than just some sencyclopédies. So neither one nor two, the young use it. And he's right. But where he has more reason I would even say where he is wrong is that it uses only wikipedia. Ooh unhappy! But what do you do with the verification of information (intersection of sources), but what do you think of the complementary information, but what do you think of the diversity of viewpoints, but what do you little idiot! ??
Wikipedia presents itself as a Resource of course. But beware of danger. Wikipedia is not "Tourdebabeledia" absolute knowledge does not exist and never will. Simply because knowledge is essentially infinity. And infinity is inaccessible (really?). What is even more damaging is that the young did the ctrl + c ctrl + v (or apple + c apple + v). Hop, wrap it weighed. Now the students are exposed wikipexposés. Rah these young, lazy and stupid ...

- MSN: My Social Network
MSN, is the social network for young people. It is their way of discussion. "Direct communication Sucks! It's better on msn, we s'lâche more!". Yes MSN is great. No more waiting to speak: an instant message and hop, Bibi knows that I just make a braid. Excerpt of a conversation allegedly could have 2 young:
- Slt, coman?
- Casual ', 1 g beef pom
:-) - Lol, my sister ossi it has happened 1 times ;-)
- loooooooooool big minds go cons:-P
- lol
- ptdr
- good j go. @ +
The text above reflects a banal conversation ICT (caricatured for the purpose of illustrating my point ... as do the journalists ... but shhh! I did not speak) between two youths. Find Charlie knowing that Charlie is the problem. Um uh I put X, I hold 4, I remove the O .... rah I can not, sir!

Google, Wikipedia, MSN are the heart of the young digital life. Yet many Other resources exist and are not exploited. Young, modeled on the adults we are blameless ...

1.3) The young and having fun with electronics and digital technology is always worse!
Rah these young ... they put a computer in their hands and they do not démordent. They are enraged young people. Take away a computer or a console is like taking a dog bone is now chew. I know someone (well it's someone's twittering this) who was bitten by a child (a child) when he wanted to send an e-mail. The addict is a young, fragile spirit bathes in the game world they can not do like we did at their age go out and play? With all these video games, young people fall into the trap of consumerism. Uh, but would not it the fault of parents who can not manage the game time of their children? But not as children bite their parents ...

Computers, Internet: 2 words for ailments. Young people are brutalized when they already had enough of this. But who invented the Internet? Young people only live through the Internet. Delete Internet and all problems will be solved!

2) Young: guilty of being a victim
Young is an idiot. The starting point is bad. Before you say, it is essential to question. The young is he stupid? Why would it fool young? Why would it be more young fool us?

Young is actually a double victim. Victim of the Internet, a victim of the young adult who sees him as guilty of his inability to face the Internet. Now the youth has the capacity to face the Internet. It's a digital native, very aware of new technologies. He bathes in it, so if he removes his world, what happens to him? But swim does not "know how to swim." And here lies the role of the adult accompanying the young in its infancy on the Internet, help swim. With training, we soon exceed the young, knowing a lot more than us. But if the training is based on gaps and errors, the youngest believe ourselves and asked us to move while performing a series of mistakes that led her to the digital drowning. And lifeguards in ICT, there are too few address the profusion of all these future drowned. Faced with these drownings digital adult, very teacher, pointing at the digital native does not control. R'harde me, I'm a digital immigrant and I'm doing better than you. And even I gladly pass the "digital". Do as I go back to pencil and the paper: the good old days.

Youth at risk of drowning digital. They must learn to swim. We try. We did our best. But what they learn is far more daunting than what they can discover. They talk about crossing the sources, citing sources while they are instant information, instant communications, ubiquitous computing, etc.. One solution: developing learning strategies attractive attractive. From Student Assessment (Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, MSN) to get where we want to take them (source reliability, validity of information, verification of sources, etc..). But one of the teachers claim demagogue. We complain that we do not meet the programs, and we find that it all takes time, too long. Quid?

Parents, teachers, adults. The responsibility for training students, depriving them of the status of guilty to the victim and help them recognize is our responsibility. The young victim and believes he is guilty. The culprit, it is not he is us. Guilty for not train, inform. Young still has a responsibility: to persist in the easy way instead of working. Learning to work: there lies the major difficulty.

3) Young, ICT and education

ICT is a revolution in the general behavior of the population. Which is not equipment? Who do not have Internet. Let's ignore the debate between industrialized and developing countries (although it is extremely interesting to talk). ICT is, whatever is said, an evolution. They greatly simplify things. But these simplifications should not conceal that ICTs are not simple. We must learn to use them to control them. We need to train young people to become independent citizens, leaders, who can think critically, etc.. This job goes to everyone. Also, become a citizen is learning to become so: what to do, how, what for? "A responsible citizen is an informed citizen" according to Hubert Beuve-Mery. This information involves not only the written papers, audio-visual messages (including reading the still and moving images) but also by written numerals. Knowing who wrote what, how, why. Be aware of rumors (hoax) on the Internet. Learn verify the information. Understanding the dangers of the Internet to better seize the opportunities of this medium mature (but ...) and scalable. All this and many other things, that we adults to learn young.
The main problem is that kids think they know. Therefore, they need to prove they do not know them by passing a small test which way will the diagnostic evaluation. Some did better than others, but it appears that with few exceptions, young people get trapped. Ask them to determine what site appears in their view the most reliable selection between a committed site, the site of sect, objective information site (well it must exist somewhere ...), disinformation site. You will be surprised (I've done with 2nd ... scary!).
Thus, you legitimize your role in learning these young people.

- Facebook, Twitter, MSN: should we talk?
Speaking of social networks, instant messengers, necessarily so, if the demand arises. After, we must assess the need to develop this idea while pondering whether or not pre-course if the explanations are useful and trainers (working on Protection of Personal Data on the impact of social networks in the spread of rumors , etc..). Internet should be free of taboo. Speaking of Facebook and Twitter has nothing demagogic: it is a fact of life that needs to inform Students who do not realize the impact of the use they make and the damage it can ask them.

Before you say that younger is silly, stupid, incompetent, he must inform and train. Once it has all the elements in possession and he continues to behave foolishly ignoring everything we could teach him (and not only him say) then there yes, we can say that this young is stupid . Finally, to further verify that learning has been properly taught ...



I can see your red eyes and your brain smoking to get here (for those who could follow). Hard to follow this speech I'm sure you've always had trouble distinguishing the serious irony. And because I am based on hearsay, legends and other tales that you are realities. I addressed this post ironically mostly just for show simplistic and easy shortcuts that are made youth. Youth, but who are they anyway? At a time when they are fighting against prejudice and racism, youth are still very stigmatized and blamed for all evils and all the words. While a young remains young, but it is a necessary and unavoidable passage for the young is built. It is therefore nothing always be assumed guilty, you just try to understand. Understand that a youngster needs. It is stupid as we ourselves have been (still are?). Certainly it's not like before: ICT has changed the game, but the problem remains the same. A teenager is still a teenager.
Let him put a computer or pencil in hand, the teenager will not change. That's what we tell him to do that can help to evolve and become a man citizen. Whatever the tool used, the teen can be built. To us to teach him to use it. We, the parents, educators, teachers and all adults, General. The more we complain of young people, it will be us that we will fall: the fault is ours, not having been able to educate and train the young. A teenager is not bad in itself. A teenager becomes what it is to become and especially what we do for it to become what we want. That is what we call education. And too many adults who have resigned. ICT is a good excuse to shirk. However, with ICT, our role is even more reaffirm. Leaving a young one comes face to ICTs, it will consider ICT as his father. Do not complain if one day you hear a child or worse your child (no, not possible, my child is not a young person like the others, he is intelligent and cultivated him) exclaimed: "This weekend I'm going to see Mom and Dad Google Facebook. And Monday is tata Wikipedia that takes me at school. I'm in a hurry, there Darkorbit waiting for me. We hear about it tomorrow at Grandma MSN? ". We
we go straight into a wall. But hey it's not our fault, it is the young and those pesky ICT ...

Note: You can replace "young" by some names of adults you know. Except for them, unfortunately, education should be ended. Who said that only young people were stupid, and idiots lazy?

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Serious Games Games (seriously): when the games are serious education

Serious Games: Serious Games
When the games are serious education

Serious games are developed each day a little more thanks to a growing demand from high young and old alike. Serious games, these are games yes, but educational.
Also, what are serious games are alike and they all? That can make serious games in education? Serious games can supplant teachers and other educators?

1) Serious Games, Serious games: what are we talking about?
Serious games are games that by definition provide knowledge, skills, abilities, one who plays. Could be considered serious games as educational games, that is to say who can have fun while learning (edutainment). Serious games tackle multiple topics: dirable development, mathematics, geography, history, technology, architecture, etc.. In short, there are all areas that are treated in some way by the school. But where is the boundary between real serious games and games to educational grounds? In Indeed, many games that claim to provide knowledge and skills relevant to (future) citizens, even though it is only a pretext. Thus, developing a city is it a serious game? Yes by his side economic management, urban planning, consideration of multiple constraints, not by its options "automatic destruction" by its code-cheats (cheat codes), etc.. In short, any game can be an element in scope "serious" (in the sense of the term education), but it is important not only entertaining options exceed these educational considerations. On the other hand, one can observe that some games are totally Education: games geographiques.com such deals really learning knowledge without "frills" useless. But these games, particularly popular with children, they really bring something on the educational side? They alter the relationship of students to teaching by developing self-learning, with all potential hazards that may cover?

2) When the serious games (dis) serve pedagogy
Serious games are located in schools with student applicants for these games. When students have free time, they want to play. Thus, just the word "game" for students interested in serious games and learning. Indeed, students clearly prefer the "serious games" on the Internet at the same price he could have! Why? Simply because students are autonomous (they want to learn by themselves) and above is the notion of "games". While these are serious games, but the term "game" resonates in the minds of students as a vital keyword. Also, the students really feel like learning something or do they do it only for entertainment? Actually, as far as I can see in the CDI, students learn without even realizing it. They play, replay and especially each other. I have never seen students involved in both work independently and in support that with these games seriously.
But what motivates them in these games so seriously? In fact, students are fond of evaluation. They want to know what they are capable and most importantly, be the best. And for that, they acquire a key concept that will serve them throughout their studies, particularly in sport: warm up, train, test, improve, repeat, etc. to be the best. This spirit of Competition is not bad at all, because it is not to win to crush the other, but to win to show that we managed to exceed the limits that were thought impassable. Well, I finished singing the praises of these games seriously. Returning to the heart of the problem posed: serious games can they replace traditional pedagogy?

3) Serious Games and Education: Friend or Foe?
Pedagogy is a business professional. This is to use techniques and strategies in order to acquire each, in its diversity, knowledge which are useful and which are prescribed by the School in particular. Also, serious games provide no education: these games are aimed equally at everyone and they are automated. The evaluation is common to all, regardless of his age, his progressions, etc.. While serious games offer different levels, but this does not change the problem raised. Thus, serious games can learn, but how to ensure the knowledge gained by everyone, and especially how to ensure that students can transfer this knowledge. Besides, I speak of knowledge, but this knowledge will be translated may never know: in fact, how a student may only incorporate such knowledge? For the example of geographical games, he certainly knows about the time that the city of Besancon is located in the Doubs, "right image" as they say (instead of "east on the map) . But outside the game, will they remember it, will they see the usefulness of this knowledge?
Serious games are very useful for reinforcing knowledge previously acquired, to transfer some of this knowledge to create meaning and knowledge and then to prepare the ground for knowledge that will come later and which will be presented by a course teacher.

Serious games are games very useful because they allow students to consolidate knowledge and to engage in a "work". Students themselves do not feel like learning because they think they only "play". Admittedly, the game helps to train the individual, but through serious games, such training is through the intellectual contribution of knowledge. Serious games provide support or knowledge. Students are fully engaged in them, not hesitating to help each other ... and conduct small competitions full of fair play. But the role of teachers and especially des enseignants est indispensable. Non pas forcément pour être derrière les élèves lorsqu'ils jouent à ces jeux sérieux (sans quoi il y a fort à parier qu'ils cesseraient de jouer), mais pour s'appuyer sur ces jeux pour aider les élèves à apprendre. Oui, il est impératif que les enseignants considèrent avec sérieux les jeux sérieux, d'autant qu'ils leurs permettent de gagner du temps. Les élèves n'ont pas l'impression d'apprendre et ne rechigneront certainement pas à une petite séance imposée de "jeux sérieux", même depuis chez eux.
- Les "Jeux sérieux" (les vrais, c'est-à-dire ceux qui auront été préalablement selected by one or more teachers) should be allowed to students at any time on their hours of study.
- Rely on serious games can be a godsend for teachers. These should not be afraid to say: "Tonight, you play this game, we'll talk tomorrow."

Now there is only wait and hope that serious games are still developing not falling in the drift of demagogy, options "unreal" and remain true games that develop a wealth of knowledge or skills. To be continued!

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Crazy drunk

Crazy drunken books

I'll reveal a secret. And not a little secret, the secret that will change your life. This secret is in 5 letters: BOOK. And little play on words which I will look and unbosom myself: drunkenness of the book.
Yes, we live in a digital world. Not the digital book is not the future of the book but just a cousin (very nice incidentally).
Yes, the book is an inalienable wealth. Not the book is not just the aliens called "intellectuals".
Yes, the book is a trap that you never regret be dropped. Not the book is not a cesspool of time.

1) Digital Society: the love of books ... paper!
Why do they always oppose the digital "traditional" paper? Why do we wish that our behavior replaces the digital "original" (and sometimes original, admittedly)? Why do we say it covers any digital our future? Why? Yes why? But finally, yes, why! Well er ... I will not play the author of suspense thriller (hey, but you'll t'bouger the neuron, y 'tired of this suspense 2 balls!) ... So the question was why: simply because the novelty simply draws! We see digital as the solution to all our ills ... but not necessarily all our words. Indeed, the paper book which was long feared even disappear, that even the most perverse wish to die, some say even see die, this book remains paper, survives and even seems to despise all the evil that we told him. I even heard just yesterday a book sighing in my way "Pouh, it might be prof-doc, it does nothing for us, dusty books" ... To which I quickly responded by leaving Dede (yes I give pet names to each of my books) and putting it in the "Favourites", these books have liked one or the other readers. Yep, Dede has been released and it was even appreciated by the curious eyes of our charming darlings of students. As appreciated, they have abandoned the "Big Bertha" as I refer to computers. Not that they are "cannon", but they destroy the process of reading pleasure ... and beyond - but not about the subject - the entire process of documentary research and treatment info. Hopla (dedication to our friends Alsatian)! I see you happy reader t'esclaffer to my point: "but it believes in the paper book one, what optimistic, and he dares to challenge the supremacy of digital ... but it is also poorly placed because it argues for the paper book publishing ... a blog on digital! Hahahahahahah! Hahahhahahah! (Repeated a few hundred times). "But I come! My purpose and my first advance explanations and justifications for further clarification. I'm totally in favor of digital very useful, very practical, very economical, very green, etc.. But our traditional attitudes, including those of the reader, should not necessarily be changed by digital technology. I say "Necessarily" because the digital readout or the cross reading "digital paper" may involve more than one drive, and good for him: "Reading is freedom, be free as you want, but read!". What I want to emphasize is that we should not at any cost want the skin (or rather the binding) of the traditional book. Simply because touch, smell, feel a book, through the pleasure of having hands. Some look better, also ask to keep it: being a bibliophile possessive, it pathological?

2) The book: inalienable wealth
Read a book is based on an adventure. This adventure, we saw virtually (like oh! Can be in the virtual, digital magic is !!!). Some prefer to keep their reading for them in their personal library: it is the possessive bibliophiles. Their principle is simple: reading is personal, I can not stand that someone has already read this book. Possessive bibliophiles have it all: the book is a treasure ... and selfishly we want to hide, not to share. Do not worry if you're a bibliophile possessive you're not sick and it's not bad to keep this treasure for you. But if you feel guilty too much and you really can not lend your book (it happens), at least give his references, that your friends can find the twin brothers of your little one! Apart from the possessive bibliophiles, there are bibliophiles (short). Them, they are more "relaxed" vis-à-vis the book: they n'hurleront not as soon as you have taken the book, they will love and use libraries are not afraid to wipe dust, etc.. Besides, dust is a good indicator of the richness of the book. One would think, if we follow our logic, a book full of dust is interesting, because (and no need to be Sherlock Holmes to guess) it means that nobody has consulted for many years. And yet. Do not forget that reading can not be personal: some people like the proof books, others hate them. So a book full of dust is truly a treasure: it is likely to fall on a pure nugget ... that almost nobody will read! And a reader, in essence a bit selfish (yes I assure you!) Dreams to come across a wonderful book and do not share his reading (boo the villain!) And especially to bring this smirk, somewhat haughty Man is happy with her: he read, he knew, he conquered!
addition bibliophiles more or less bibliobsédés (dedication to a fellow blogger ), there are those who say "no drive" means one or vulgar (not necessarily will) "weak player". In low drive, low side gives a pejorative, or should rather see the concept of "casual player". Let the debate further drive (everyone reads: a label, a message on paper or on TV, the numbers in his repertoire, etc.). And talk about the book reader. It is true that the book is scary with all its formats with barbarous names: broadsides, folio, in-4 °, in-8, in-16 °, in-18 °. Yet it is nice book! He does not bite, it does not itch, it does not speak (except to me as I've previously admitted), it does not destroy the eyes (it is still necessary to clarify because with all that see on TV, ma'am!), it is not harmful to health (even when I said that we should not eat ...), short, it causes no side effect .. . except that of pleasure! So if you (or someone you know who) wish to enter the closed circle (double turn) readers (wow! Gonna be able to enter the community of the book !!!), follow these some advice the letter (to follow the letter and read a book, but rather recommended!):
1) Get up from your chair (unless you're already standing)
2) Keep moving to a place where there are ray on which there are plenty of objects that connect the leaves to each other: what are the books
3) Take your or your arms out to one or other of these books. To make your choice, listen to a book if you do not whisper in the ear of the "read".
4) Once your choice made, keeps this book well in hand.
PS: If you feel a slight burning sensation, it might be normal: you do not usually carry a book.
5) Return with this book beside a chair, a bench, or any other place to sit comfortably.
PS: Caution: you might have to sit several tens of minutes (or hours) in a row: So settle down to a comfortable place where you do not risk being disturbed
6) Make yourself comfortable and open the book (for that, turns the first page)
PS: Be careful to take your book to the place. To find you a text you write on it verifies that it is the title and it is in the right direction
7) Read the text. Once you've finished reading a page, turn the page to read more. Am this for many pages as the account book.
PS: If you do not understand what you read, is at once the dictionary of ancient Greek writing in Latin, it is not for you!

Warning! During your reading, you might develop your imagination, develop knowledge and worse ... to have fun!

Tip: well warn your friends that you will read (not doing too good, that they are also likely to ever read): you might laugh, cry, whine, get angry, etc..

's it? You have all read? Have you finished? Hurray! You're a player. Good does not rejoice too, if you 've become readers, now you have a new addiction: the book. But do not worry, the obsession of the book is not a disease ... but an incurable virus! But it's a nice virus as we explain Maestro (reference to "Once Upon a Time ... Life" series which I am also nostalgic :-().
But now that you read you get frightened Read it takes time ... And what I will not do another instead?

3) Interpretation: the time-consuming treasure
Yes Reading takes time. Like any fun, like any hobby. But why worry about the time spent reading? This concern for "Drives casual "is legitimate before reading, they had much more time. But a lot more time to do what, there is the real issue. Moreover, the time spent reading is far from the time" lost " . Rather, it is time gained. Not only is it fun to read but you learn a lot of things, if not in content, in our reading speed. And actually, in our society surinformationnelle, quickly read it more efficient. Well, not too capilotractons not the fact of reading. Reading is a bit of a perpetual treasure hunt. And every time we find the treasure. Of course, sometimes This treasure is a very small amount, but often travel and time spent on this trip is worth all the candles ... sometimes even 36 so we were shocked. So yes, reading is time consuming. But when the bed, time stops. He stops, but when you have finished reading it again and even nibble all our time reading. One solution: do not stop reading (hey, that's a record "smart" for the Guinness for once). Well, eyes are likely to leave the road lines at the end of time ...
Moreover, to demonstrate that reading is a personal treasure hunt, perpetual, ask any player (They are easy to identify: they are green, wear glasses and speak a language unknown to all): You admit that their quest for the Grail is relentless since they receive their first book.

Speaking of the Grail, the Grail literature are there? All lead the investigation, and if you find the Grail, let us know, I'm interested. Aside drive aside, I hope each reader or non-reader will understand all the interest today, tomorrow and after tomorrow the book yet. I hope he will understand that digital is certainly useful, but certainly does not replace and will replace it is safe ever, the paper book. I hope he will understand that reading is a passion that grows by itself. I hope he will understand that the intoxication of the book is a wonderful phenomenon that must have lived at least once in their life. At first read it too too hard. In the epilogue, wearing his watch and let his imagination carry through a few lines written takes you on an endless journey towards what appears to personal fulfillment!