This article establishes the importance of digital communication skills and their development in school. Despite being connected with general communicative competence, these skills are a special area primarily defined by the multimedia and interactive character of the digital world, which demands flexibility and a critical attitude from users, who are forced to constantly select and reflect on various roles, discourses, genres, information, and so on. According to some of the results of Eurostat’s studies and the Pisa 2018 survey, digital communication skills among young people do not depend on the frequent use of ICT because the scores achieved by Slovenians or Slovenian secondary-school students were significantly lower than those of their Finnish peers. One of the reasons for their skills being more poorly developed is the lack of inclusion of digital communication in the Slovenian language curriculum and the resulting lower level of its planned and comprehensive development in school.
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