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…
themarksey
Morgan Arksey. Teacher-librarian, media literacy advocate, ed tech realist, and occasional shark. Writing about libraries, platforms, pedagogy, and the places they overlap.
About Me →Latest from the Blog
Dispatches from the intersection of libraries, literacy, and the algorithm.
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…
TikTok-ing Education
When I read this assignment outline, I immediately thought of @etymologynerd. Adam Aleksic’s posts are uniquely meta. He explains the history of our spoken and…
Software Encyclopedias
I can’t be the only person who was obsessed with Microsoft Encarta’s Mindmaze game. I had always yearned for a set of Encyclopedias… but when…
📚
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.
🦈
Mr. Sharksey
A shark-masked persona turned pedagogical framework — four years of library programming, media literacy TikToks, and platform critique from inside the platform.
✨
Creative & Thinker
Scrabble competitor, literary tattoo collector, speculative fiction reader. Care and critical thinking are the same muscle.