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The present Master Thesis deals with the technologies used in education sector and more specifically with the satisfaction they can offer to educators, on areas like the convenience in teaching methods, the easier information obtainment or the facilitation in administrative issues. As it will be easily proved by the literature review below, the education technology has showed evolution leaps during the last 20 years. This one, has enabled educators to using innovations unknown during past decades and taking advantage of the numerous tools with which the educational experience is drastically improved. However, technology implementation in Greek educational sector and its processes, used to encounter multiple reactions (and it still does, to be honest). This though, does not necessarily mean that on the other nations the technology implementation in educational sector has been from its start, an easy task. These reactions happen in Greece, are more related to teachers’ fears that technology will gradually replace them, leading their role to a completely complementary one. One more reason causing reactions, is that teachers consider technology as a mean which prevents students from developing their social relations. This one though, depends on the frequency they use technology as well as the form their engagement with the technology takes. Teachers, nevertheless, seem to recognize the benefits provided by the modern educational programs or the means with which their use can finally take place. They also recognize the facilitation offered to many processes, the increased speed or the interest they cause to kids, turning them to desire their continuous exploration. In the context of this Thesis completion, a research conducted, with which teachers’ satisfaction in a series of questions is recorded. These questions are related to the technologies used in educational sector and the capabilities provided, the school facilities including these technologies, the improvement of the educational profession and finally, a few possible changes that teachers would like to see in the future, always regarding the technologies used by their sector. This study considered being of great importance and usefulness, given the fact that there are almost any researches focusing on that part (satisfaction). Most of the researches focus on the causes emerge from time to time, preventing technology from being implemented in schools and their everyday processes. Α γ γ έ λ η Λ α μ π ρ ι ν ή iv Thesis’ results, which by the way took place at the Preveza Prefecture, Greece, between 100 Primary Education teachers, are particularly interesting. Teachers seem to be largely satisfied by the New Technologies’ capabilities, however, they express an intense dissatisfaction about the facilities in their schools or the equipment has been available to them. In addition, they seem like mostly using the conventional technologies (desktop or laptop), rather than modern ones such as the 3D projections or STEAM education. They do recognize that New Technologies accelerate the information discovery, they offer a teaching content and methods difficult to approach by other means, and finally, they also help them on their administrative duties. On the conclusive statistics, Gender and Job Years proved to be the more influential variables in teachers’ answer choices.