This contribution is focuses on a specific area of digital literacy measurability, namely the ability to work with software. It presents partial results of the research, which was conducted within the project VEGA 1/0748/20 Diagnosing Digital Literacy of Primary School Teachers in the Context of Undergraduate Training and Educational Reality. It presents the area of computer and interactive whiteboard use in the context of self-assessment and real-world skills of teachers and future teachers. It also summarizes the programs that teachers in primary education use during their teaching.

The contribution focuses on current questions and issues in the area of mass media influence on the behaviour of pupils of a younger school age in Slovakia. It offers partial results of research that appeal not only to the importance of implementing media education into primary education, but also show the real status of teachers’ readiness in the area of digital and media literacy. Research was quantitative-qualitative and in addition to the questionnaire method was realised interviews with headteachers of schools and focus interviews with the pupils. The aim of our research probing was to find out the contemporary state of the implementation of the media education into the education process as well as preparation of the teachers in the educational practices in regard to the specific sphere. Research is currently continuing to diagnose the digital literacy of teachers and future teachers in Slovakia.