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We have this persisting opinion of lawyers being dishonest and all for the money. Mahesh Chander Mehta, also known as M.C. Mehta, disproves generalizations. He is an environmental lawyer based in India, his home country, where bureaucracy is not for the faint hearted. M.C. won cases to protect the Taj Mahal, Ganges River, and other historical sites. He upholds Indian's Right to Life, Polluters Must Pay, the Precautionary Principle, and the Public Trust Principle. He wins cases through sheer hard work and impeccable integrity. He does not earn much but the respect he has won is priceless. To read more about Mahesh Chander Mehta visit www.thextraordinary.org

Muthoot Finance is India's largest lending organisation disbursing Gold Loans operating the present business for seven decades holding strong principles of security and speed in their business

The role of the teacher is slowly but surely changing and with this come new challenges. Change becomes inevitable and processes for managing this and capitalising on the opportunities it brings becomes paramount within organisations. It is perhaps not surprising that educational institutions may evolve to become what are termed 'Learning Organisations' or 'Professional Learning Communities' within which there is a focus on the application of the principles of learning to manage change and explore new opportunities. 

5 principles for social networking success.

Created though a partnership among the Media Education Lab at Temple University, the Center for Social Media at American University (AU), and AU's Washington College of Law, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, the code identifies five principles of consensus about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials, wherever and however it occurs: in K-12 schools, higher-education institutions, nonprofit groups that offer media-education programs for children and youth, and adult-education programs. 1. Employing copyrighted material in media-literacy lessons 2. Employing copyrighted material in preparing curriculum materials 3. Sharing media-literacy curriculum materials 4. Student use of copyrighted materials in their own academic and creative work 5. Developing audiences for student work

EduCon 2.2 is both a conversation and a conference. And it is not a technology conference. It is an education conference. It is, hopefully, an innovation conference where we can come together, both in person and virtually, to discuss the future of schools. Every session will be an opportunity to discuss and debate ideas -- from the very practical to the big dreams. 1256484170_twitter_02.png 1256484162_facebook_02.png 1256484938_delicious.png The Axioms Guiding Principles of EduCon 2.2 1) Our schools must be inquiry-driven, thoughtful and empowering for all members 2) Our schools must be about co-creating -- together with our students -- the 21st Century Citizen 3) Technology must serve pedagogy, not the other way around. 4) Technology must enable students to research, create, communicate and collaborate 5) Learning can -- and must -- be networked.

Must. Read. Such a valuable lesson and another example of how we are doing it wrong.

CBR lists 7 reasons why you should care about net neutrality. Net neutrality is the principle that ISP's and governments should treat all data on the internet as equal. This means that there should be no discrimination or charging of separate rates to different users, content, sites, platforms or applications.