The Short Version
I’m Morgan Arksey — a teacher-librarian 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 and making the systems behind them visible.
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Thinker
MET graduate (UBC). Thinking about the intersections of critical pedagogy, new materialism, platform studies, and media ecology. Thinkers who keep showing up: Barad, McLuhan, Latour, Kress, Bourdieu, The New London Group
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Mr. Sharksey
A little absurdity goes a long way. 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
Believer in Community and Third-Spaces. Coffee drinker. Collector of Literary Tattoos. Willing to be a little bit absurd, if it makes it more interesting and gets the point across.