AE17.MED.8.18

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

AE17.MED.8.18
Analyze and responsibly interact with media arts tools, environments, and legal and technological contexts, considering ethics, media literacy, social media, and virtual worlds.

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

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

Aligned Learning Resources

Students as Creators: Exploring Multimedia