The appearance of the Internet and digital media has led to major changes in many aspects of modern man's life. One of the most important areas affected by these changes is education. The gradual introduction of e-learning represents one of these changes. Despite the digital divide and difficulties due to poor school equipment, the increasingly accessible technology enables fast access to free educational content (Mihaljević, 2016). Multimedial digital teaching materials are still in a large minority in terms of practice in teaching itself. By contrast, traditional materials,such as a blackboard, a chalk, a book, and a notebook, are still at the very top of the scale. The use of digital media and multimedia in teaching offers a multitude of different educational opportunities. With the unavoidable use of multimedia, modern-day classes continue to be student-centered, where students are collaborating in teams, answering questions on their own and learning content through critical thinking (Croatian Academic and Research Network - CARNet, 2015). This represents a step foward in comparison to traditional learning methods where the teacher is a plain transmitter of knowledge. However, we will not say that tradition is replaced by modern ways, but essentially enriching, which is only right, and in accordance with the time in which we live (Cvetkovic, Markovic and Popovic, 2010). The purpose of this paper was to explore the attitudes of teachers about the need for using digital media in teaching and how much digital media have an impact on motivation. The research also involved how much the teachers use digital media in the classroom and their self-assessment regarding computer literacy. Also, in the online questionnaire, teachers were supposed to choose which aids they are using and would like to use in their preparation and teaching practice. One hundred twenty-one teacher of primary and subject teaching from the Republic of Croatia participated in the survey. The results show that teachers assess themselves as computer literate, they use digital media in their own teaching, and they try to keep up with new technologies.