Young Voice is an eTwinning project created bythe participation of young people and teachersfrom 3 different nationalities (from Turkey, Italyand Poland) . Digital literacy and Internet safety

are underlying topics for the project, "YoungVoice". The aim is using critical thinking

strategy methods to help students to improvetheir competence of discernment for media

literacy and e-safety. Therefore, we first off asindividuals of the society who are readers andviewers of the media objectively, and studentsand participants of the project which we takepart in, have done various activities with the

goal to find out or analyze what is beingpresented on the Internet.

Since we have taken part in valuable meetingsand webinars which have been carried out byIT specialist Jarrel RIVERA, and from digital

communication experts such as Prof.Dr. DenizYENGİN and so on..We have seen the

damages of fake journalism for our society, towhat extent and how fast this problem can take

place in our society and its possibleconsequences. We wanted to draw attention to

the importance of this and we have seenourselves by drafting fake news that false

reporting can affect us, just like true reporting,and sometimes even on a larger scale. As well

as our awareness have improved on theseissues mentioned above, we were able to

complete the tasks of all 4 basic skills (listening,writing, speaking and reading) that areindispensable for our foreign language

development while we used different Web 2tools to gain the important usage of ICT skills.

With our media literacy teams:

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Sami KAYA Merve ŞAHIN Sümeyye Naz BAYTEMIR

Newspaper Team:The Newspaper Team designed 2 newspapers that tell the progressof this project and a booklet with the posters our teammates created

and a magazine about e-safety.

Reporters Team:The Reporters Team did a virtual exhibition with all of the logos and

slogans the participants created during the contest of choosingthem. The team also interviewed people around them about the

internet.

Columnists Team:The Team Columnists evaluated the results of the survey preparedby the Graphic Designer Team and wrote a collaborative report onit. Apart from that, they wrote articles on the topics we dealt with on

our eTwinning page and published them on our page.

Website Team: The Website Team created our webpage and was responsible for it

during the project and they updated the page according to ouractions daily.

Podcast Team:The Podcast Team made 4 podcasts for our podcast channel in

Podomatic. They are about Spring, eTwinning Day, April 23 NationalSovereignty and Children's Day, technology.

Graphic Designer Team:The Graphic Designer Team did a 27-question survey describingyoung people's use of technology and their experiences on the

Internet in 3 different countries and a general questionnaireexplaining the answers to the survey.

are the teams we have created. Before finishing the project, we didan online meeting as all Young Voice youth. Our final task was to

prepare a game. We decided on the subject and production stagesof the game, shared tasks among media teams and created Young

Voice's own game. We learned how to communicate and workcollaboratively with our teammates when we were studying inter-disciplinary. We presented all the results, because we knew that

sharing is the second part of the learning for everyone to reach theinformation we have found. In the end, we were able to find an

effective, educational and fun way to go through hard times withCOVID-19. We learned how to analyze the data we found when we

were writing our report and provide details statistically. We usedmedia effectively with all-collaborative blogs, newspapers andpodcast channels. The cultural interaction resulting from the

difference of variation between countries was a great advantage forus students.

You can find the work done

by the Newspaper Team here.

You can find the work done

by the Reporters Team here.

You can find the work done

by the Columnists Team

here.

You can find the work done

by the Website Team here.

Sami KAYA

You can find the work done

by the Podcast Team here.

You can find the work done

by the Graphic Designers

Team here.

Merve ŞAHIN Sümeyye Naz BAYTEMIR