Sentences with phrase «studies texts about»

Not exact matches

Research about how interruptions from technology affect people's well - being is beginning to emerge: One study of college students found a link between excessive texting and diminished well - being.

In one example, SAS studied transactions of customers and text transcripts from call centres of a financial services provider, then looked at what individuals said about the firm through social media.

First, to determine if this effect was in fact true, the researchers conducted a series of lab experiments in which they asked study subjects to talk about products both face to face and through text messaging.

And it's hazardous if you're driving to text or even talk on a cell phone (even with a hands - free setup, some studies estimate that dialing your phone is just about the most dangerous thing you can do while driving).

She may not have been indoctrinated / brainwashed by someone within her household, but she didn't form these beliefs about Christianity in a vacuum where no one around her was attempting to convince her to believe, and she was just studying various religious texts until she happened on the bible and other apologetics.

But you know a lot less about the Bible than Biblical Scholars who have studied the original, Aramiac, Greek and Hebrew texts and a lot more learned and educated than you and still believe: guys like Fr.

During that time, we studied the story of Joseph as it appears in both of our traditions — in holy text (Torah and Qur «an) and in commentary (midrash and tafsir)-- and also learned a lot about each other.

We began talking about the close study of word patterns and structures and ended up reflecting on the authoritative function of biblical texts.

Once, at an academic conference at which people began banging on, as they so often do, about what a magnificently systematic thinker Aquinas was, I lost my temper and said that whenever I heard people going on about this, I knew one thing: that they had never closely studied Aquinas's texts.

They study their sacred texts, memorize them and talk about them so much that adherents share a deep, rich common language.

Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we question in order to find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.

It allowed me to reconceptualize the study of «women in the Bible,» by moving from what men have said about women to a feminist historical reconstruction of early Christian origins as well as by articulating a feminist critical process for reading and evaluating androcentric biblical texts.

Have you ever studied the texts in John 6 or had discussions about them with others?

So historical - cultural background studies are helpful, but even they will not give you absolute certainty about the meaning of any text.

Have you ever studied these texts in John 6 or had discussions about them with others?

In his objective study of the texts, Maurice Bucaille clears» away many preconceived ideas about the Old Testament, the Gospels and the Quran.

One of the most useful things I have ever learned about studying the Bible is that I need to go back to the root of the text, find out what it meant in the original language.

The question of how many men wrote the Book of Isaiah can not be answered by quoting doctrines about the Bible but only by detailed study of the text.

For all that fretting about how the Millennial generation is too busy tweeting, texting, blogging and catching up on episodes of Gossip Girl to have time for books, new studies find that they're actually doing the most reading in America.

For example, Harvard theologian Ronald Thiemann, who studied under Frei, objects that the cultural - linguistic model makes talk about the «text» stand in place of Christian talk about God; Yale biblical scholar Brevard Childs rejects Lindbeck's talk about the text creating its own world.

Of course, they can talk about what is said about God by those people or texts they study.

Occasionally one hears about laymen being asked to study in advance the Scripture from which the text of the sermon is to be taken.

In this study, the prevalence of iron deficiency was about 9 %, and 1.5 % had iron deficiency anemia, findings similar to other studies in developed countries (Baker et al. 2010, full text here).

... a lot of campaigns are thinking hard about how to make these text message blasts seem like real conversations, real one - on - one conversations, which studies have shown are more effective at persuading people.

Banire, who explained that Justice Agbadu - Fishim was an old colleague of his while lecturing at the University of Lagos and a fellow researcher at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, said the last contact he had with Agbadu - Fashim was about 14 years before three years ago when he received a text message from Agbadu - Fashim soliciting financial help for the funeral of his mother.

In a study by the Georgia Institute of Technology, pediatric patients who were asked questions about their symptoms and provided information about asthma via SMS text messages showed improved pulmonary function and a better understanding of their condition within four months, compared to other groups.

After the study, the research team analyzed patients who had follow - up visits with their physician and found that sending at least one text message a day, whether it was a question about symptoms or about asthma in general, improved clinical outcomes.

And the besetting sin, you see as an amateur coming from outside, it struck me almost immediately — because I've never taken psychology or read a psych text book — and what I've noticed over my 20 - years holiday in this discipline is the extent to which people who study IQ data and even other data about individual differences never concoct a sociological scenario that might explain the data.

Drivers eat, reach for the phone, text, or otherwise take their eyes off the road about 10 percent of the time they are behind the wheel, according to a study using video technology and in - vehicle sensors.

This research supports another study reported by Medical News Today earlier this year, which found a combination of health warning graphics and text on cigarette packets increased knowledge about the dangers of smoking among young adults, compared with text - only warnings.

Katey had always hounded me about starting it soon, and then one day when I was studying for a Marketing test and was about to have a mental breakdown, I decided I needed a break from school and texted her saying it was time to brainstorm.

Appearing as the cover story of the USA Today Weekend edition, Jayson wrote about a recent study conducted by online dating sites JDate and Christian Mingle in which 1500 singles aged 21 - 50 shared their thoughts on how mobile phone technology and texting when it comes to matters of the heart.

The lessons progress through a range of tasks that engage student's interest, encourage them to: -: interact and share what they know -: develop their abilities to extract information from text and graphics -: view information critically -: check the credibility and validity of information -: develop online research skills -: use web based tools to create surveys and data visualisations The lessons cover a range of topics including: -: Advertising and how it influences us -: Body language and how to understand it -: Introverts and extroverts and how they differ -: Emotional intelligence and how it impacts on our relationships -: Facts about hair -: Happiness and what effects it -: Developing study skills -: The environment and waste caused by clothes manufacturing -: Daily habits of the world's wealthiest people -: The history of marriage and weddings Each lesson includes: -: A step by step teachers guide with advice and answer key -: Worksheets to print for students

This week, Education World offers three teaching masters for teachers across the grades to use to help students brush up on their study skills — using a search engine, using an index, looking for key words, skimming text for information, and more — while they learn interesting facts about the world around them!

As students explore informational texts in the social studies classroom, they can use literacy skills while learning about topics in the news.

«It's a lot more interesting than having them simply write about it or draw pictures of it because they really have to think about how to communicate with an audience and use text and images that make sense to people who haven't studied what they've studied.»

Anticipation Guides: Anticipation guides ask students to think, write, and / or talk about their opinions on key themes or big ideas contained in upcoming texts and units of study.

Students learn through the following tasks: - Gauging and collaborating previous knowledge through an interactive starter task; - Identifying the descriptive devices in sentences written about 19th Century characters; - Building close reading skills through a study of a fiction extract from Frankenstein - Answering exam - style questions interpreting and inferring the key meanings in the text; - Using models and templates to write extended analysis responses about the descriptive language used in the fiction extract; - Peer assessing their partners» learning attempts.

The other students were in favour, so I agreed with this proviso: your talk has to be about some aspect of the maths we have been studying this year, so open your text book at random and prepare your talk about the topic on that page.

Another strategy to file in the «cheap and effective» category: A study published this year found that weekly automated text messages sent to parents about their child's grades, absences, and missing assignments encouraged them to be more involved in their child's learning, improving attendance by 17 percent and reducing the number of students failing a class by 39 percent.

This could take a number of forms: a suggested «wait (and reflect)» time before responding to texts that cause an immediate, negative emotional reaction; a check - in with a friend or adult about a troubling text and a draft response (some youth in our studies suggested that this was routine for them); or a request to «take it offline» and talk in person in order to get a proper read on tone and gravity of a situation or conflict between friends.

the teachers were sitting around talking about close - reading, and a social studies teacher was saying how hard it was to keep kids engaged when you are reading the same small chunk of text again and again, in different ways... (contd)

In a 2017 study from Columbia University, for example, middle and high school parents received weekly texts about their children's grades, absences, and missed assignments, resulting in an 18 percent increase in student attendance and a 39 percent reduction in course failures.

By embedding vocabulary instruction in social studies and science units, and by having students read multiple texts about a single topic (for instance, coral reefs or the Great Depression), students may ultimately acquire more academic words.

Check out the case study by former Edutopia executive director Milton Chen on using iPods to teach English language learners, or there's a blog by Audrey Watter about texting in the classroom.

One - hundred - twenty (N = 120) parent and child dyads participated in a home visit study in which they talked about narrative and informational texts.

Middle and high school learners create WebQuests about the texts and authors that Shakespeare himself studied when he was in grammar school.

All of these methods are helpful for students who struggle with writing because they activate prior knowledge about the topic of study, require text summarization, and / or encourage discussion through which students are exposed to multiple perspectives.

The students will learn about the life and work of the scientist and this informational text could serve as an introduction and onset for further scientific study of the cosmos.

The study «Pressing for Elaboration in Student Talk About Texts» by Dot McElhone examined the use of high - press questions in elementary level classroom discussions.