Ravikant Wawge has created the project "Local Stories, Global Voices: Citizen Journalism for Sustainable Development" in Class2Class.org

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Local Stories, Global Voices: Citizen Journalism for Sustainable Development

What is this project about?

Student teams produce a short, ethically sourced news feature on a community sustainability initiative, using simple tools or print formats. They present and peer-review their feature in a live class-to-class broadcast, incorporating feedback from pa...

Age of Students: 13-15 years, 16-18 years, 18+ years
Project Duration: 8 weeks
Starting Month: December 2026

This project contributes to the following global goals

This project promotes and protects these children's rights

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to identify and describe a local sustainability challenge in their community linked to a relevant SDG, using accessible sources.

Remember / Understand

Students will be able to apply verification steps and ethical sourcing principles to gather accurate facts for a short community sustainability news feature.

Apply

Students will be able to compare how their local sustainability issue and approaches differ from those of partner classrooms abroad, using feedback from a live exchange.

Analyze

Students will be able to evaluate the credibility, clarity, and impact of their own and peers' citizen journalism features using a shared peer review checklist.

Evaluate

Students will be able to design and present an original citizen journalism feature, using simple tools or print formats, that informs audiences about a local SDG-aligned initiative.

Create

Skills to develop

Global Awareness

Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving

Intercultural Communication

Collaboration & Teamwork

Digital Literacy

Project Activities

Meet your partner class and map local sustainability challenges

Students meet their partner class by video call, introduce their community, and brainstorm local sustainability challenges they could link to a Sustainable Development Goal. They choose one challenge to investigate.

Duration: 90 minutes

Research, verify and report your local sustainability story

Student teams find accessible sources on their chosen challenge, check facts and ethics, interview community members where possible, and draft a short news feature with clear SDG links.

Duration: 420 minutes

Compare local realities in a live class-to-class exchange

Teams share their findings in a live video exchange with the partner class, then compare how issues and solutions differ across both communities and note feedback from partners.

Duration: 240 minutes

Revise and peer-review features with a shared checklist

Students revise their features using partner feedback, then review each other's work against a shared checklist for credibility, clarity, and impact, sharing reviews asynchronously with the partner class.

Duration: 240 minutes

Present and broadcast your citizen journalism features

Teams present their final feature in a live class-to-class broadcast, receive feedback from partners abroad, and reflect on what they learned about global sustainability and intercultural communication.

Duration: 150 minutes