The importance of teachers in multimedia literacy education

In this paper, we present results of the analysis of motivation and satisfaction of elementary school teachers in Croatia related to multimedia literacy education. We have also determined the current situation and possibilities to adopt the multimedia literacy in the current school system in Croatia. Our comparative statistical analysis proved that there is a significant correlation between results students achieved in the multimedia quiz and the teacher's use of multimedia CD in the classroom: two schools where students achieved the best quiz results use multimedia materials with each teaching unit, while in the other schools (where the multimedia CD is used only occasionally in the classroom or the occasional use of the CD in the classroom is combined with independent use at home) students scored lower in the quiz and, consequently, school achieved the lower rank.