In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.

[98, 104, 201, 129, 60, 241, 81, 101, 256, 13, 217, 268, 127, 108, 184, 11, 230, 24, 79, 130], k=19
256