Media Arts
Media Arts Education places creativity and cultural relevance at the center of contemporary learning, using evolving forms such as film, television, and digital media to engage students. It reflects today’s global culture, promotes critical thinking, and provides meaningful, real-world learning experiences that support student engagement and success.
Media Arts promotes:
- Academic achievement
- Artistic expression
- Arts and content integration
- Convergence literacy; media, information,
- Technological, digital, virtual, emerging
- Creativity and imagination
- Making meaning; relevance
- Pedagogical integrity
- Social relevance and vitality
- Technological mastery; inter-media fluency
- Vocational/entrepreneurial proficiency
Media Arts Education prepares students for success in school, work, and life:
- Strengthening literacy as Media Arts is an essential, holistic language;
- Developing a globally competitive workforce since Media Arts develops essential skills for global competitiveness in the 21st century; and
- Nurturing engaged learners for Media Arts promotes expressive and cognitive development.
Standards
The National Core Arts Standards provide a nationally recognized framework that defines what students should know and be able to do in the arts, outlining performance standards and artistic processes to guide coherent, high-quality instruction and assessment across grade levels.
- National Core Art Standards website link is available upon request.
Kansas State Department of Education tool that aligns media arts standards and instruction to Rose Capacities, illustrating how media arts education develops transferable skills such as creativity, communication, critical thinking, and collaboration across grade levels.
Assessment
Kansas State Department of Education–developed exemplars that illustrate how standards-aligned dance learning can be assessed through authentic performance tasks, demonstrating student understanding of movement, creativity, and artistic processes.
- Model Cornerstone Assessments for Media Arts website link is available upon request.
