“The product is inclusion”
— Andrea Cahn
Please join me for a wonderful conversation with Andrea Cahn, Vice President of Unified Champion Schools at Special Olympics.
We began our deep-dive by exploring the programming that Special Olympics delivers upon its mission by working with schools to bring people together and promote social inclusion… and extended from there.
“Everyone brings a strength or a skill or valuable attribute… and even is society tries to rank different characteristics, we try to ensure we have a more holistic approach to what’s important or what matters.”
Having re-listened, here are some things I’m thinking about:
What does it mean to not merely provide an interface that helps audience engage, but to provide an interface that helps all people get to know one another better — in a meaningful way? Where has (a tool like) Facebook gotten that right — and where has it failed?
What’s the equivalent of “social capital” within education technologies? Is it… trust?
How can technologies inspire courage?
How do we celebrate and reward multiple kinds of outcomes — even if the objective is to teach kids to achieve a specific skill, applied in a specific way?
Episode 4: Full conversation transcript