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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