Quebec Competencies Chart – Data Defenders

Description: Data Defenders is an interactive game that teaches children and pre-teens the concept of personal information and its economic value, and introduces them to ways to manage and protect their personal information on the websites and apps they enjoy.

Cross-curricular Competencies

• To use information
• To exercise critical judgement
• To use information and communication technologies (ICT)

Broad Areas of Learning

• Media Literacy
• Environmental Awareness and Consumer Rights and Responsibilities

This lesson satisfies the following Competencies from the Quebec Education Program:

English Language Arts

To Read and Listen to Literary, Popular and Information-Based Texts

• To use a response process when reading and listening to literary, popular, and information-based texts
• To construct her/his own view of the world through reading and listening to literary, popular and information-based texts
• To construct a profile of self as reader
• To self-evaluate her/his reading development
• To construct meaning by applying appropriate reading strategies

To Represent Her/His Literacy in Different Media

• To apply appropriate strategies for constructing meaning
• To self-evaluate her/his development as a viewer and producer of media texts
• To follow a process to respond to media texts
• To construct her/his own view of the world through the media
• To follow a production process in order to communicate for specific purposes to a specified audience

To Use Language to Communicate and Learn

• To use language (talk) to communicate information, experiences and point of view
• To self-evaluate her/his language development
• To use language (talk) for learning and thinking
• To apply her/his knowledge of linguistic structures and features
• To interact in collaborative group activities in a variety of roles