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 modify an existing media arts work by interjecting research to strengthen or challenge the message of the work.
- Create an annotated bibliography of media arts products that inform an audience about a cultural tradition. Choose one product and share with the class, expanding their knowledge of a tradition through a media arts experience.
- Create an annotated bibliography of media arts products that inform an audience about the cause and effect of a current social trends. Choose one and share with the class, demonstrating how the message varies within different contexts.
- Research the legal, technological, system, and vocational 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
- Internal
- Introspection
- External
- Connections
- Research
- Synthesize
- Purpose
- Persuasion
- Values
- Contexts
- Legal
- Technological
- Systemic
- Vocational
- Responsibility
- Literacy
- Fair Use
- Copyright
- Ownership
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
