Media Arts: Grade 8

Creating

Presenting/Producing

Responding

Connecting

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

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

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Identify and develop ideas, goals, and solutions for original media artworks through authentic engagement focused on creative processes through divergent thinking and open-ended inquiry.

Structure and critique ideas, plans, prototypes, and processes for media arts productions, considering artistic intent, resources, presentation context, and associated elements and principles.

Understand and apply a variety of media arts processes to produce increasingly complex works of art, communicating personal choice and increasing technical skill using a range of elements and principles.

Refine and modify media artworks, improving technical quality and intentionally accentuating selected expressive and stylistic elements to reflect an understanding of purpose, tone, mood, audience, and place.

Synthesize multiple contents and forms into unified media arts productions that convey a strong theme and personal voice.

Exhibit an increasing set of artistic, design, and technical skills through performing various roles in producing media artworks through creative problem-solving, collaborative communication, and organization.

Demonstrate creativity, exploratory process, and adaptability using innovative tools and techniques in revising and developing solutions to achieve an assigned purpose in constructing media artworks.

Design, evaluate, and refine presentation and distribution of multiple formats/context of media artworks, considering impact on personal growth and meaning conveyed.

Develop and maintain an individual portfolio of media artworks that shows proficiency in craftsmanship, technical skills, and the development of an emerging personal voice.

Analyze why and how an exhibition or production may influence ideas, beliefs, and experiences.

Identify, describe, and analyze methods, various styles, message and meaning with intent to develop and organize personal ideas, resolve specific visual arts problems, and create works of media art to manage audience experience.

Interpret the intent and meanings of a variety of media artworks, focusing on intentions, forms, and various contexts by incorporating specific elements and principles.

Analyze and interpret media artworks through thoughtful discussion and/or written response, considering themes, ideas, mood/feeling, context and artistic goals based on input from the critique process.

Identify and build media arts skills to address social, cultural, or societal issues while examining related careers, higher order thinking, problem-solving, creativity, personal beliefs, imagination and lifelong learning opportunities in a local and global context.

Identify and demonstrate trends in the media arts to communicate cultural differences to connect people and places through values, purpose, interdisciplinary study, differing perspectives to increase innovation, and the quality of work.

Interpret the use and impact of digital citizenship to include environments, technological contexts, copyright, plagiarism, citations, validating resources, and social media.