I am interested in many areas of computers and education. Overall I am interested in school development and effective curriculum and instruction. My interest for computers in education started when I was writing my thesis at the Teacher´s University in 1982-1983. I wrote about the programming language Logo. Seymour Papert is the founder of Logo and he is still looking at new ways for children to learn. His ideas are constructivism ideas. He stressed the importance of building on the experience of children and the importance of cooperation. Þuríður Jóhannsdóttir writes about this in her M.A. thesis "Fish education into the Internet".

Today I am interested in the use of computers in special education. I am working at a developmental project together with Ingibjörg Haraldsdóttir teacher at Ártúnsskóli. We are looking into various areas of using a laptop both at home and in school with a girl in 3. grade, my daugher, which is handicapped. The goal is to create an educational environment using the laptop in her study in cooperation with the home. The student uses the laptop in reading, writing, social studies and in cooperation with other students. My daugher is in an inclusion program in the school and they are doing a great job. I am very interested in school for all or inclusion. Cooperation is the important factor in that area. My daugher´s teachers are working in a very constructivist way. Therefore I think that the use of the laptop for her is very successful. We had a lecture at UT2003 about this project under the name "See my sweet display". Sigríður Guðnadóttur my fellow student wrote about the lecture in her blogg. You can also see a powerpoint-show which I made as an assignment for the course Upplýsingatækni í menntun og tölvumenning skóla. The importance of the laptop is obvious in this area. The Microsoft laptop-project in USA with elementary school students stresses the same.

As a classroom teacher in i 1989-1993 I worked with various computer communication projects, f.ex.. National Geographic Kids Network. This educational material was very professional. A few Icelandic school used this f.ex. Háteigsskóli, Melaskóli, Selásskóli og Grandaskóli. Today you can use this material by using the Internet and some other interesting projects at Terc. I am interested in all the possibilities the Internet has in connection with elementary-school teaching, mostly projects where the children are active in their educational projects.

I taught at the computer school Futurekids. They had a very good educational material. They taught the use of various programs/tools which I think most people today agree has to be done.

I do also have some interest in distance education. I am not very familiar with all the possiblites of that apart from what I have learned this winter in connection with my distance education study at the Teachers University of Iceland. You can read an interesting article about distance education by Haukur Ágústsson.