Deep Dive with Aditya Vishwanath on Creative Access

About this episode

Aditya Vishwanath discusses the shortcomings of traditional education and the importance of creativity in learning.

There's a version of education that produces brilliant test-takers and has very little to do with learning. Aditya Vishwanath, Stanford-trained education researcher and co-founder of MakerGhat — a nonprofit makerspace network operating in thousands of schools across India — knows that version intimately, and has spent his career building the antidote. In this episode of our Wired to Create series, he and Kelly make the case that what kids need most might also be the thing we've neglected to give them. To connect with Kelly and get a list of her weekly takeaways, join Kelly's free Substack. This episode was made possible by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation. To learn more, please visit: waltonfamilyfoundation.org. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Kelly Corrigan

Guest: Aditya Vishwanath

Topics covered

• education
• learning
• creativity
• nonprofit
• makerspace
• research

Keywords

• education
• learning
• creativity
• makerspace
• research
• nonprofit
• test-taking

Sponsors

Walton Family Foundation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MakerGhat, Stanford

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