Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 7 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.7.18

Analyze and responsibly interact with media arts tools and environments, considering copyright, ethics, media literacy, and social media.

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?

Skills Examples

  • Create a unique media arts product in the style of an exemplary work but using personal experience to communicate a new message. Give credit to the original artist in the work.
  • Choose a media arts production that can be interpreted in different ways because of perspective of audience. Share and demonstrate to the class how analysis of this production can inform new knowledge and cultural understanding.
  • Write a paragraph analyzing how media arts productions experienced everyday are part of society through social media and careers.
  • Develop a bibliography of appropriate and free use media arts tools and components for 5th grade students to use in creating their own products.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
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