What Is SILC?
Schools Innovative Learning Cooperative (SILC) has a unique membership which comprises e-learning leaders from primary, secondary and tertiary educational sectors. The cooperative provides the opportunity to engage in an ongoing professional conversation regarding evidence-based practice around issues related to learning with innovative technologies.

Emphasis is on a collaborative rather than an individual culture of learning, where ICT is used to extend thinking, promote collaboration and open opportunities for new ways of working and learning.
Department of Education and Training

Centre for Learning Innovation

University of Technology Sydney

Who Are the Partners?
East Hills Girls Technology High School

East Hills Girls Technology High School is a comprehensive high school located in South Western Sydney. The school has a student population of approx 960 students.
The school offers a very broad curriculum and has included Information and Software Technology as a mandatory subject for all students in years 9 & 10.

Sounds from Space involves student in establishing an amateur radio station at the school. Students send and receive VHF and UHF signals to orbiting low earth satellites, using prediction software to determine the optimum satellite passes for communications. Attempts will be made to contact the on board transponder on the International Space Station.

St Ives North Public School

St Ives North is a large state primary school located in Sydney’s North Shore area. The school aims to provide a caring and stimulating environment in which its energies and resources are directed towards providing quality educational programs.

Machines of the Future involves year 5 students in a student-directed program with robotics as the focus. The project is part of the Science and Technology program.


Wyong High School

Wyong High School is located in the Central Coast region of NSW in the beautiful natural bushland setting adjacent to Wyong River. The school is a district comprehensive high school providing a broad based education to students from a wide range of backgrounds with diverse interests and abilities. It has built a cooperative community of learners using technologies to develop personal excellence.

Practical GPS brings real-world navigation into the classroom. Students design and participate in a range of learning activities based on the use, history and development of celestial and GPS navigation techniques. Students act as both as a consultative body and as creative partners.

Centre for Learning Innovation

The Centre for Learning Innovation (CLI) was established as part of the NSW Department of Education and Training to promote teaching and learning innovation throughout NSW government schools and TAFE NSW. CLI provides excellence in learning resource production, and leadership in the strategic use of technology in education and training. It is located in Strathfield, Sydney.

CLI provides extensive support to the Innovative Learning Technology Project through its connection to other innovative programs and provision of online community spaces.

Faculty of Education, University of Technology, Sydney

Faculty staff and student teachers act as Teacher Associates to the project, contributing expertise in maths, science and IT to the development of each school project.

The research component of the project seeks to analyse the value of participation in the school projects, from both student and staff perspectives. The viability of the SILC network for enhancing teacher professional learning is also investigated.