Abstract:

Big attention has been given recently to the ‘Net Generation’, also called ‘Digital Natives’ or the ‘Y Generation’. Net generation is consisted of persons who were born between 1980 and 1994 and their specialty that is also the reason that makes them a special group is that they are extremely familiar and rely many of their every day actions on information and communication technologies (ICTs). Traditional education mass-produced information and distributed it in the same way to everyone. Content flowed to students as passive receptacles. That no longer works. Education is obligated to evolve and provide to students what they need to know in order to survive and become virtuosos to the job that will choose to follow. In this paper a research that took place in the Technological Educational Institute of Serres, Greece is presented. It concerns technology-based tools and the extent to which students use them. These tools are both for entertainment purposes but also for educational needs. A factor analysis is being made in order to group together factors with similar characteristics, reduce them and prepare them for further investigation.