BONUS 2: Kevin Kildea - Cooking with Geeks

BONUS #2 - Kevin Kildea: Cooking with Geeks

Kevin teaches high school math in the Detroit area.

• Math major, teaching certificate, minor in radio and production
• Likes a beer called “Final Absolution”
• Joke about mathematicians and sheep
• Bert blew up Michael Jackson in college.
• Editing vs. splicing. Tape vs film. Audio vs. video.
• Math homework is easier to grade than history or English.
• “Don’t teach your students what they can look up on Google.”
• Teach students how to think, how to find answers, and how to problem solve.
• Fighting AI doing homework.
• The student body has changed – they already know so much.
• Be a teacher, not a teller. Don’t solve the problem for them.
• MIT sent him a letter thanking him for being an influence on a student’s life.
• The greatest roofing story.
• Bribing Kevin with chicken wings.
• Kevin and Bert make desserts for the potluck, we don’t buy them.
• Kevin makes awesome French onion soup. Bert makes great wings – and shares a secret.
• Working together for a common goal applies throughout life

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