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BONUS 2: Kevin Kildea - Cooking with Geeks

BONUS 2: Kevin Kildea - Cooking with Geeks

Beers with Engineers

August 8, 20241h 1mbonus

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Show Notes

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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