About

The Short Version

I'm Morgan Arksey — teacher-librarian at Fort Richmond Collegiate in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I spend my days running a library, teaching media and AI literacy, supporting staff with instructional design, and occasionally putting on a shark mask to make a pedagogical point on TikTok.

I recently completed a Master of Educational Technology at UBC, where my capstone project used TikTok's own mechanics to teach critical platform literacy. I came in as a tech optimist and left as a tech realist.

I believe in care as resistance, reading as infrastructure, and the idea that understanding how platforms shape knowledge is the media literacy challenge of our time.

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Teacher-Librarian

Library services, whole-school reading culture, instructional support, and the persistent conviction that every student deserves access to texts that matter.

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Researcher & Thinker

MET graduate (UBC). Working at the intersection of critical pedagogy, new materialism, platform studies, and media ecology. Thinkers who keep showing up: Barad, McLuhan, Latour, Kress, Bourdieu, Fairclough.

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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 Human

Competitive Scrabble player. Collector of literary tattoos (Le Guin, Pratchett, Jansson, Gaiman — a coherent philosophical statement about care, resistance, and seeing power clearly). Reader of speculative and historical fiction.