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Harvard's GoodPlay Project are about to release their curriculum, "Our Space: Being a Responsible Citizen in a Digital World"

This was co-developed by the New Media Literacies Project at U. of S. Calif. and the Harvard GoodPlay Project, so it combines Jenkins's new media literacy with Gardner's/GoodPlay's digital ethics. What it does not cover, I believe, is physical safety and computer/network security. BUT the critical thinking herein is indeed protective against phishing and other malware attackers that employ social engineering, right?

Jenkins, now at the University of Southern Calif., was at MIT when he started the New Media Literacies Project and wrote the first paper on participatory culture ('06) in which the above first appeared.

the blog of the Digital Media & Learning Project helps me keep up with the latest thinking in the US about digital technology & youth (aggregates the work of leading social-media researchers).

The literacies (defined in the page bookmarked here) named by Prof. Henry Jenkins and the New Media Literacies Project are: Play Performance Simulation Appropriation Multitasking Distributed Cognition Collective Intelligence Judgment Transmedia Navigation Networking Negotiation Visualization

just a list of "new media literacies," here's Prof. Henry Jenkins's (these are covered in the new Our Space curriculum I referred you to): Play Performance Simulation Appropriation Multitasking Distributed Cognition Collective Intelligence Judgment Transmedia Navigation Networking Negotiation Visualization

About Visionsofstudents.org - its creators' process, described in Prof. Michael Wesch's blog

Latest project of Dr. Michael Wesch at Kansas State U., anthropology professor (with his undergraduate and graduate students studying YouTube culture).