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Two Pint PLC – Personal & Professional Education Podcast

A podcast to challenge educators across K-12 by considering up-to-date research and current events through the lens of practicing teachers trying to do what’s right for students.

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101 Ed Tech & Opportunity Makers

Release Date:  July 12, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Episode Synopsis

Education research, from technology to instruction to design, too often uses an instrumentalist approach that assumes the right tool or trick will simply solve a problem. Jason McDonald joins to talk about the need for entangled research that actually changes both the researcher and the system for the better.

Later, we read The Opportunity Makers and reflect on how some important flaws put key findings at odds with most other educational research.

  • First Segment – 02:22 – Entangled Education Technology Research
  • Second Segment – 23:40 – TNTP’s The Opportunity Makers

 

Featured Guest

Jason McDonaldJason McDonald
Professor in David O. McKay School of Education
Brigham Young University

Primary Citations

  • McDonald, J. K., & Ventura, B. (2025). Is education better because of us? How ed tech can answer the call to produce research that matters. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12528-025-09440-w
    • Complementary Copy: rdcu.be/ekuFN
  • TNTP. (September 25, 2024). The Opportunity Makers. https://tntp.org/publication/the-opportunity-makers/

Supplemental Citations

  • The Man Who Predicted the Downfall of Thinking [Neil Postman] (Centre for Humane Technology)
  • The Good Life of Teaching (Chris Higgens)
  • Author Website: jkmcdonald.com
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  • 021 Relationships & Rigor [The Opportunity Myth] (Two Pint PLC)

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We drink Organic Cherry, a cherry fruit beer from Samuel Smith Old Brewery in Tadcaster, England.

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