Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 8 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.8.15

Access, evaluate, and use internal and external resources through cultural and societal knowledge, research, and exemplary works, to influence the creation of media arts productions.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Media artworks synthesize meaning and form cultural experience.
EQ: How do we relate knowledge and experiences to understanding and making media artworks? How do we learn about and create meaning through producing media artworks?

Skills Examples

  • Research for a media arts project by reflecting, interviewing family and friends, and reading scholarly sources and create a toolkit for seventh graders interested in media arts.
  • Create a presentation of media arts products that inform an audience about various cultural values and perspectives. Include local and global events.
  • Create a presentation of media arts products that inform an audience about the cause and effect of a current social meme. Demonstrate the effective presentation of the effect on cultural identity.
  • Research the legal and technological implication of music sampling in the music industry and create a media arts project that evaluates the court decisions regarding sampling and the effects on media artworks and artists.

Vocabulary

Resources
  • Self
  • Others
Communication
  • Inform
Contexts
  • Legal
  • Technological
Message
  • Purpose
  • Meaning
  • Values
Culture
  • Trends
  • Power
  • Equality
  • Identity
Identity
  • Personal
  • Social
  • Cultural
Evaluate
  • Exemplary

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
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