Lecture Technique - Bradley Young

The idea that lecture’s are compulsory to attend at post-college/sixth form age is ridiculous, lectures should be something that someone would feel obliged to attend rather then have to be told to attend. Attendance should also be dependent on your skill in that topic also. Such as if a student is getting a very high, 90% average in a class, the lectures should not be compulsory as they obviously must know what they are doing. But students with less than a 60% average must be made to attend lectures, as it is vital they attend to get a good grade overall.

Lectures are also not 100% vital to attend as technology has made our lives easier, such as the use of email, to email lecture notes and universities having listen again online help. Also, the idea that lectures stand in front of a class for an hour and present there presentation, of which only about half an hour of it is effective before students start to get distracted, about a topic is only one persons understanding of the topic, it may be more beneficial for some individuals to look at the presentation in there own time, and also look over other sources such as books and the internet to get a greater understanding and other views of the subject while also reading through the presentation.

When lectures are attended, notes should be taken in a linear form with the title at the beginning with bibliographical details as well, so that if needed you can reference the lecture in the future, and subtitles throughout the notes to help you understand when you are reading it back to yourself, as it will help explain what each section corresponds too. Notes should then be re-written and revised when you get home; this allows the information to transfer from short-term memory to long-term memory.