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Eleven active wild fires are continuing to rage on in Portugal across six different fronts with high winds hampering efforts to contain them.

Around 1500 firefighters, 200 military personnel and countless locals are desperately battling the blazes. The Interior Secretary Jorge Gomes, declared his suspicions that the fires were set deliberately.

The fire in Pampilhosa da Serra is said to be the most serious and has left emergency services struggling to cope.

Two villages in the Arganil municipality have been evacuated as a precaution and at least four people including three firefighters have been injured in Anadia.

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Eleven active wild fires are continuing to rage on in Portugal across six different fronts with high winds hampering efforts to contain them. Around 1500 firefighters, 200 military personnel and countless locals are desperately battling the blazes. The Interior Secretary Jorge Gomes, declared his suspicions that the fires were set deliberately.

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The 7 Most Important STEM Skills We Should Be Teaching Our Kids

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The 7 Most Important STEM Skills We Should Be Teaching Our Kids

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Just what skills do students need today to succeed in the future? We asked 7 leaders in STEM education what they think classroom teachers should focus on to prepare kids for jobs we haven't even conceived of yet.

Many of our interviewees cited a diverse range of skills, but we challenged them to name at least one key ability they believe will be more critical than the rest in order to succeed in future STEM fields.

We were surprised by the equal mix of "soft" and more traditional academic skills mentioned, from creativity to statistics. Read on for more of what our experts had to say:

1. Statistics

"If I were to choose one specific discipline for students to study, it would be statistics, a course that can be applied across all STEM fields. You don't need higher levels of calculus or physics for all STEM careers, but you do need statistics. A deep understanding of statistics means understanding probability and error rates, concepts that cut across almost any type of problem you want to solve in STEM."

- Gregg Fleisher, president, National Math and Science Initiative, Dallas, Texas

2. Problem-Solving

"What binds together the STEM movement is the notion of modern skills. Employers talk about problem-solving. Society requires problem-solving. Doing your taxes requires problem-solving. Those are the types of skills that really matter. A practicing engineer will tell you, 'I didn't use the calculus I learned to solve problems on paper, but the way it taught me to solve problems and to think about problems was really important.'"
-James Brown, executive director of the STEM Education Coalition in Washington, D.C., and a nuclear engineer by training
3. Creativity

"Creativity can be simple and complex at the same time.We don't always teach to think outside of the box. You've got to look at a problem from a different perspective sometimes. Teachers can nurture this by asking open-ended questions. In math and science, you can show different models so students get varying ideas of how it might look to bring together one idea. Or don't show a model at all and leave it a little open-ended so they have to come up with a solution on their own. Ask: 'Why do you think this is?' Reflecting and explaining what they did to solve a problem can foster creativity and teach collaboration -another important skill."

- Jenny Nash, education sp ecialist with in Boston, former middle school teacher and teacher-preparation instructor

4. Argumentation
-Eric Brunsell, associate professor of science education and director of the teacher education program at University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
"The act of arguing is using evidence to support a claim. In the STEM fields, this means using analytical and critical-thinking skills to look for patterns in data, trying to determine what those patterns mean, and then using that data to support a claim. This skill transfers across all disciplines. In an elementary school science class, for example, if you give students a lot of different experiences with noisemakers-everything from tuning forks to speakers to whoopee cushions-they have the experience of collecting data. And then they will be able to use that data to make the argument that sounds are caused by vibrations."

5. Intellectual Curiosity
-Ted Wells, vice president and chief strategy officer at STEMconnector®, in Washington, D.C.
"The days of coming into an organization and having the same role forever are over. Many people will have two-year stints and then are moved into a different role. That's the nature of modern career paths. Beyond mastering content, individuals need to be innovators, learn from failures and keep moving on. You need to cut across disciplines and be able to ask the questions that help build connections. People need to be lifelong learners and be driven by an intellectual curiosity to try to figure things out."

6. Data-Driven Decision-Making

"Students need to be able to make a decision not just based on what they think or feel, but on scientific data that supports the best solution. Everyone needs to know how to do this. It doesn't matter whether you go on to a career in STEM or not-you need to know how to use data to make informed decisions in your life."

- Stacy Klein-Gardner, director of Center for STEM Education for Girls at Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a biomedical engineer and on faculty at Vanderbilt University.

7. Flexibility

"People are now required to adapt quickly to new demands and new situations. They need quantitative skills to manipulate data well. They need to be able to communicate clearly. There is a broad set of skills that, I would argue, everyone needs. Just look at the sheer number of people in manufacturing who were skilled at what they did but who now need a whole new set of skills, often late in their careers, to be viable in the job market. They need to know statistics, technology, quality control. They need to understand programming and systems to ensure the automated production technology is operating correctly. The trick for teachers is to give their students authentic problems to tackle in school, problems that require students to draw on different areas of knowledge and skill."
Teachers, what are your thoughts? Do you have any focus skills that you particularly try to instill in your students? Please share in the comments!
- Claus von Zastrow, chief operating officer and director of research for Change the Equation in Washington, D.C.

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Spain has seen sudden, violent confrontations in Catalonia in the past - occasionally with far more dramatic consequences than the chaotic scenes at voting stations on Sunday. But the ugly images emanating from Barcelona and elsewhere suggest it has lurched into a moment of deep crisis. Are five centuries of coexistence really under threat?

The task of clearing up the mess begins on Monday, but there is no obvious way forward and nobody who looks capable at the moment of healing the wounds.

Timeline
Six key moments in the Catalan independence campaign

Spain's constitutional court strikes down parts of a 2006 charter on Catalan autonomy that had originally increased the region's fiscal and judicial powers and described it as a "nation". The court rules that using the word "nation" has no legal value and also rejects the "preferential" use of Catalan over Spanish in municipal services. Almost two weeks later, hundreds of thousands protest on the streets of Barcelona, chanting "We are a nation! We decide!"

At the height of Spain's economic crisis, more than a million people protest in Barcelona on Catalonia's national day, demanding independence in what will become a peaceful, annual show of strength.

The pro-independence government of Artur Mas defies the Madrid government and Spain's constitutional court by holding a symbolic vote on independence. Turnout is just 37%, but more than 80% of those who voted - 1.8 million people - vote in favour of Catalan sovereignty.

Carles Puigdemont, who has replaced Mas as regional president, announces an independence referendum will be held on 1 October. Spain's central government says it will block the referendum using all the legal and political means at its disposal.

The Catalan parliament approves referendum legislation after a heated, 11-hour session that sees 52 opposition MPs walk out of the chamber in Barcelona in protest at the move. Spain's constitutional court suspends the legislation the following day, but the Catalan government vows to press ahead with the vote.

Police arrest 14 Catalan government officials suspected of organising the referendum and announce they have seized nearly 10 million ballots destined for the vote. Some 40,000 people protest against the police crackdown in Barcelona and Puigdemont accuses the Spanish government of effectively suspending regional autonomy and declaring a de facto state of emergency.

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It may all get rapidly worse. Separatists in the Catalan parliament threaten to declare independence within 48 hours, even though the results of a referendum held in such circumstances may be widely deemed invalid. A unilateral declaration of independence might, in turn, lead to the regional government being taken over by Madrid.

Both steps would deepen the rift considerably. But since neither side was prepared to budge before the long-expected "train crash" happened on Sunday, there is little reason to hope for caution now - especially as both claim the moral high ground.

The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, says he was bound to uphold a court decision to suspend the referendum because the country's constitution does not allow a regional government to unilaterally call one on independence. Many would question if it needed that level of police violence.

Catalonia's regional president, Carles Puigdemont, says he was obliged to call the referendum, because that is what separatist parties pledged to do if they won elections in 2015. Opponents in Catalonia accuse him of riding roughshod over the rules that govern even his own parliament.

In practice, a declaration of independence seems unworkable. Many Catalans who oppose separatism - a majority before Sunday - would be outraged at having their nationality changed like that. Foreign governments and international institutions would deem the declaration invalid, turning Catalonia into a pariah state within Europe.

Other arguments aside, however, the temptation to wave a red rag in front of Rajoy's conservative government may prove too enticing.

Even before this vote, Rajoy's refusal to consider a legal referendum - along with his history of opposing other transfers of power to Catalonia's regional government - was largely responsible for the separatist upswing.

His response to Sunday's vote has almost certainly boosted it further, while also garnering support among public opinion abroad. If separatists were in a minority before Sunday, that might now have changed.

Whatever happens, Spain's prime minister is unlikely to address the main issue - that a large majority of Catalans, including many who oppose independence, would like him to call a proper, legal referendum. That is a red line.

Rajoy's People's party (PP) has long held out against the kind of constitutional reform that might produce a compromise.

It can always prevent this, even when out of power. That is because reform can be blocked by one-third of parliament, which the PP (now with its new allies in Ciudadanos) has held for the past 24 years and will hold for the forseeable future.

The PP is not the only group to use minority positions in this battle. The separatist bloc in the Catalan parliament has a small majority of seats, but won these at elections that were billed as a plebiscite on the referendum plan and which gave it just 47.8% of votes.

An electoral system that favours rural areas, where the "Catalan-only" identity is strongest, is to blame. That may not prove the strongest platform from which to launch a programme based on selective disregard of the courts.

Solutions do exist, however, which do not involve Puigdemont's separatism nor Rajoy's intransigence.

Although most Catalans have, until now, rejected independence, a large majority would like greater autonomy. Socialists believe that could be achieved with a proper, German-style federalisation of Spanish regions. A confederation, implying greater Catalan equivalence with the rest of Spain, might also work.

Simpler solutions that have been allowed to slip by are probably no longer valid. If Rajoy had not asked the constitutional court to cut back Catalonia's existing charter of self-government, for example, none of this would have happened. That the court did so in 2012, overturning the parliaments of both Spain and Catalonia, suggests the constitution needs fixing.

Money, meaning Catalan control of local taxes, would also probably have stopped the rot several years ago. That would have hit poorer parts of Spain, since part of the money goes to them.

A legal referendum with a proper campaign, in which it became clear that - for example - an independent Catalonia would place itself temporarily outside the European Union, might still produce an overwhelming vote to stay.

The risk, of course, is that it might not. Or that separatists will keep demanding referendums until they win, and then never offer Catalans a chance to turn the clock back.

Whatever the solution, politicians with an ability to compromise are needed. They are thin on the ground.

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Catalonia and Spain need a compromise, but who can deliver one?

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Spain has seen sudden, violent confrontations in Catalonia in the past - occasionally with far more dramatic consequences than the chaotic scenes at voting stations on Sunday. But the ugly images emanating from Barcelona and elsewhere suggest it has lurched into a moment of deep crisis. Are five centuries of coexistence really under threat?

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DESIGN THE SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE THATCONTRIBUTE DEVELOPING THE SKILLS OF TOMORROWIN THE PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY

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ICT and Digital Skills – FCL Regio: collaborative project of coding between two schools in Sweden

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Depictions of scenes that don't exist on planet earth, yet...
Russian Artist Alex Andreyev has been drawing, painting and creating graphic design, for over last 20 years. He works as art-director in an advertising agency and as senior concept artist for movies and game production. This is the second time we feature this talented artist, with a great imagination (link below), or foresight for the future. The pig and the bird, would definitely fall in the realm of the surreal, but can you say the same for the rest?

Surreal Worlds of Trailing Gardens Illustrations

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Beacon.
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Domestic Airlines.
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Water Day.
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ICT and Digital Skills – FCL Regio : Stress in Structures: A Collaborative Project for Two Schools in Catalonia

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The Supply ofand Demand forHigh-Level STEM Skills

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First of all, if we have already focused our attention in the general lack of information about the issue, this one might be an absurd question altogether…
Nevertheless, I believe that some areas of society will always demand new breakthroughs from scientists and researchers: energy, systems' automation, communication, transportation, health, sustainability, entertainment, etc.

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I can say that this paper sums up very well the main challenges in helping students to choose a career pathway in STEM. First of all, and naturally, the inevitable uncertainty about "tomorrow’s jobs" in a hyper speed-changing world… But also the absolute lack of organized information on STEM, provided to teachers/counselors; the lack of opportunities to research, digest and organize the existant information, simultaneously with teaching/counseling daily routines;  the overwhelming distance between pure theoretical school counseling and the meaningful experience in real life contexts, that unfortunately don’t exist…
All these are severe obstacles to a proper, enlightening, motivating, future building help.

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While a digital gallery could never fully replicate the experience of walking through an art museum, some computer-generated art has the same capacity to provoke awe. Take for example Zsolt Ekho Farkas's 3-D rendering of the 19th-century painting, Budavár Visszavétele. Observing this CGI masterstroke on your laptop is bound to stir up as much wonder as something you'd find hanging in a hushed room somewhere.

The stunning three-and-a-half minute video above reveals the incredible detail in Farkas's re-creation of Benczúr Gyula's painting-and also transcends it. The video itself is a living painting, using subtle camera movements to let the viewers take in the true depth of field each figure in it possesses. Unlike the recent paintings we've seen with added movement, all that really moves here are tendrils of smoke that further clarify the spatial texture.

"This was my first time re-creating a painting, and the cause is a bit sentimental," Farkas tells us. It started as a challenge from his wife. She dared Farkas to make a full 3-D version of a classic painting they'd seen in a booklet on holiday, and the Hungarian artist decided on using Gyula's painting, which depicts Budapest's recapture as Ottoman forces invade. After analyzing the painting and figuring out the character positions in the 3-D space, he had to create digital models for every person, animal, and object that appears in the image. By the time he finished texturing and planar projection, the image required 8.5 million polygons to support it.

"There are 32 characters in the scene, and I had to rig them all one by one," Farkas says. "Due to my computer struggling with the high poly-count, I had to freeze them, which is the reason I didn't use any additional sculpting software. It's one of the things I have to do differently on my next project."

One of the interesting aspects about the process, which you can read all about here, is how Farkas included the smoke effect in the video. He made his own footage by filming smoke from an e-cigarette, using two LED lights and a shut-down computer monitor as backdrop. All in all, the project took 10 weeks to create.

The only problem is now we will want to see every painting this way.

Have a look through some making-of images in the slides above.

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The Emerging Role ofScience Teachers in FacilitatingSTEM Career Awareness

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As far as we can tell, yes, there is such a shortage. Why would we be doing this MOOC, if that concern didn’t exist?...
Coming to the causes of the shortage, they might be multiple, but there’s one of them that strikes me the deepest: the way some governments systematically neglect their roles in intermediating between school, university and labor market.
I wouldn’t’ accept governments taking the place of students(/parents) choosing their formation paths; I don’t really think governments could ever mess with each university’s formation offer definition; I don’t even conceive a circumstance in which governments would interfere in employer’s processes of recruiting… But governments are the perfect partner to link all these players, in a functional network of common needs, shared objectives and joint efforts to upgrade societies.
In Portugal, we just knew that, this year, 40 university courses haven't received any student applications… This is obviously ridiculous and a good example of how school, university and labor market are speaking in totally different languages, but maybe this is no single case in Europe.
If governments are aware that STEM careers give youngsters good future prospects, they must engage themselves in introducing and attracting them to it. If governments get involved in introducing and attracting young people to STEM, they must make themselves sure that universities are equally focused in deploying that specific formation. If governments make all the possible efforts to help students’ STEM careers becoming real, they must encourage employers to modernize their own working procedures and routines, in order to exploit in this scientific knowledge in the best possible way.

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The Opening Schools to STEM Careers MOOC is meant to train and empower Heads of Schools and Career Counsellors in successfully equipping -and adapting- schools with tools for introducing and attracting young people to choose STEM careers. Learn more at: http://www.europeanschoolnetacademy.eu/

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My name is Pedro. I'm a portuguese teacher, presently teaching Portuguese to 7th/9th grade students. Teaching is a tricky crafstsmanship, but kids make it worth it.

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