Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
EQ: How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?
EQ: How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?
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
- Inform
- Legal
- Technological
- Purpose
- Meaning
- Values
- Trends
- Power
- Equality
- Identity
- Personal
- Social
- Cultural
- Exemplary
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
