ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on digital literacy. Digital literacy is approached from three perspectives: a cognitive perspective, which focuses on reading/writing strategies; a genre pedagogical perspective, which focuses on the development of text-related skills for reading and writing; and a situated perspective, which focuses on literacy as participation in a social practice. The concept of "literacy" is complex and dynamic. There is a continuous effort in theory and practice to grasp its meaning. The concept is dynamic because of various drivers: technological developments, educational policy developments, and the development of research. Information literacy reflects on the challenges that the computer causes, and focuses particularly on basic computer skills and the Internet as a resource for learning. A cognitive approach to literacy has the objective to develop comprehension and the use of reading and writing strategies in order to flexibly and efficiently decode and understand different kinds of texts.
