¡Qué nervios! Mañana es el Gran día. Mañana vienen a vernos Ana y Marisa del IES San José. Nuestros alumnos están deseosos de poder enseñar sus progresos en los proyectos del centro. 

Estamos encantados de compartir nuestros proyectos y experiencias educativas. Será una jornada llena de aprendizaje y enriquecimiento mutuo.

La colaboración entre centros es clave para el desarrollo de nuevas ideas y enfoques pedagógicos. Estamos emocionados por la oportunidad de intercambiar conocimientos y fortalecer la comunidad educativa.

¡Bienvenidas Ana y Marisa! Estamos listos para mostrarles todo el esfuerzo y la dedicación que nuestros estudiantes y profesores han invertido en estos proyectos.

#Muévete24

Ayer 31-01-2024 asistimos a la jornada inicial del programa Muévete.

Ha sido una jornada emocionante, dónde hemos podido planificar lo que nuestro centro el IES de Castuera mostrará a nuestras compañeras del IES San José de Villanueva. 

The art of camouflage – spot the sniper

A series of photographs featuring camouflaged snipers shows how subtle the art of disguise has become. In this new age of trickery, could the invisibility cloak become a reality? Simon Menner’s photographs demonstrate how unreliable our eyes actually are. Find out where the sniper is atthe bottom of this article. 

If you think you have 20/20 vision, think again. Camouflage works by exploiting the weaknesses of human perception. Most of us rely on our eyesight as our first and best guide to the world around us – Leonardo da Vinci claimed it is worse to lose your sight than any of your other senses because we orient ourselves visually.

Yet these pictures by Simon Menner demonstrate how unreliable our eyes actually are. They show snipers hiding in a variety of landscapes. Would you notice any of them without the red circles locating their whereabouts? Can you even see them with the aid of the prompts?

This is simple scientific trickery. Our brains just don’t decode visual information as efficiently as we think they do. A broken pattern, or a confusion of depth and flatness caused by illusory shadows, or just a subtle blending of colours can make the visible invisible. Designers of camouflage have been researching and exploiting such optical illusions since the first world war – yet another reason to mark the centenary of its outbreak. One of the first uses of camouflage in 1914-18 was to disguise dreadnought battleships by painting them with giant Futurist markings to shatter their outlines in the water. A century on, the art of disguise has – these pictures prove – become a lot more subtle than such early efforts.