Chapter 5: Embedded Librarianship in a High School Library

Abstract

This case study chronicles the learning experiences of three cohorts of tenth-grade students taking an honors literature/composition course (also known as Media 21) cotaught by high school librarian Buffy Hamilton and English teacher Susan Lester between August 2009 and the present. This class, which takes an inquiry stance on information, digital, and participatory literacy, has provided students a learning environment in which Hamilton is intensely involved in the instructional design, teaching, and assessment of student learning for approximately 75 percent of the academic year. Hamilton shares how she utilized teaching technologies to teach key processes and skills to cultivate network and information attention and to provide students feedback and assistance through virtual cloud computing applications.