This document discusses the importance of digital literacy for jobs and outlines a program by JISC to promote digital literacy in UK higher education. The program aims to establish an institutional vision for digital literacy, embed it in strategic planning, engage students, understand disciplinary differences, and partner with other organizations. Young adults are avid social media users and concerned with online identity management, so examining social, technological and structural factors influencing digital literacy practices online is crucial to understanding how sites impact writing.

1. Digital Literacy
Tech 2002 Remix
By Sameer Chudasama & Sheraz Hussain

2. Jobs
90% of new jobs will require excellent digital skills, improving
digital literacy is an essential component of developing employable
graduates.

4. JISC Developing Digital Literacy's
programme
The aim of the programme is to promote the development of coherent,
inclusive and holistic institutional strategies and organisational
approaches for developing digital literacy's for all staff and students
in UK further and higher education.

5. D D L Program Objectives
 Establish an institutional vision for the development of digital
literacy's;
 Embed digital literacy's at the core of the institution’s
strategic planning process;
 Engage students in the process as change agents;
 Map how disciplinary differences and cultures shape the
development of digital literacy's;
 Explore how institutional structures and processes enable
and/or hinder the embedding of digital literacy's;
 Partner with relevant sector organisations to support
development and aid wide and effective dissemination.

6. Young adults represent the most avid users of social network sites, and
they are also the most
concerned with their online identity management, according the Pew
Internet and American
Life Project (Lenhart, Purcell, Smith, & Zickuhr, 2010; Madden, 2012).

7. These practices represent
important literate activity today, as individuals who are writing online
learn to negotiate interfaces,
user agreements, and personal data, as well as rhetorical situations.
Examining the social,
technological, and structural factors that influence digital literacy
practices in online environments
is crucial to understanding the impact of these sites on writing
practices.
Applying Brooke’s (2009)

8. “a shorthand for the myriad
social practices and conceptions of engaging in meaning making
mediated by texts
that are produced, received, distributed, exchanged, etc., via digital
codification”
Lankshear and Knobel (2008)