themarksey
Morgan Arksey. Teacher-librarian, media literacy advocate, ed tech realist, and occasional shark. Writing about libraries, platforms, pedagogy, and the places they overlap.
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Dispatches from the intersection of libraries, literacy, and the algorithm.
And now for something completely different: Musings on solitude and loneliness
I grew up with cattle, a herd animal. You can’t keep a single cow by themselves – not if you want it to be happy.…
What now, brown cow?
Yesterday I handed in my last assignments for my last course in my Master of Educational Technology degree through the University of British Columbia. While…
What NotebookLM Remediates (and other LLM tools too for that matter)
Imagined as a rousing political speech, with patriotic music slowly swelling in the background. Colleagues, I know many of you are excited about NotebookLM, especially…
Why I Made Ed Tech Specialists Compare Search Results for My Professional Development Session on New Materialism
As a teacher-librarian, I’m constantly making decisions about which databases to subscribe to, which search tools to recommend, which encyclopedias to point students toward. These…
Ursula Franklin and Prescriptive Technologies
An assignment in which I didn’t quite follow the instructions properly, but came away with a greater understanding because of it. This video was made…
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Teacher-Librarian
Information literacy, reading culture, and the quiet radical work of making sure everyone in the building has access to the right text at the right time.
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Mr. Sharksey
A shark-masked persona turned pedagogical framework — four years of library programming, media literacy TikToks, and platform critique from inside the platform.
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Creative & Thinker
Scrabble competitor, literary tattoo collector, speculative fiction reader. Care and critical thinking are the same muscle.