The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) provides an active outreach program to help increase the understanding of two very important public values: (1) open government; and (2) personal privacy. As part of this outreach program, the IPC has developed an elementary and secondary school program: What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy.
What Students Need to Know provides an opportunity for students and their teacher to discuss why access to government-held information and personal privacy are important public values, and how these values are reflected in our relationships with governments.
The Grade 10 What Students Need to Know program is focused on introducing students to the importance of these two values, and how they are relevant to their lives. Our hope is that once the values are learned and understood, they will find expression and ongoing relevance as students mature. This guide contains a number of activities which are designed to generate questions and stimulate group discussion of open government and privacy protection.
This version has been revised to be consistent with the course profiles funded by the Ontario Ministry of Education. New to this version is a Fishbone overview of the resource. Teachers are encouraged to examine the overview and then use, modify or adapt the lessons and their activities to suit their students’ needs. | 
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