The implicit power of modern communications technologies to improve citizenship education is explored in this paper. The relationship between the use of educational technology and the effectiveness of social studies instruction are only beginning to be studied, and these inquiries have been focused more upon the "harder" science dimensions of the social studies, geography and economics, than on the "softer" areas of civic competency or citizenship education. After a brief review of the literature, the outcomes of projects designed to help teachers make better use of technology in social studies instruction are described. These projects, part of the Technology in the Curriculum (TIC) Program dealing with mathematics, science, and language arts, in addition to history-social science, were funded to help teachers use technology to enhance and extend their curriculum programs and to redirect the emphasis of the state's Teacher Education and Computer Centers (TECCs) from a concentration upon "computer literacy" for everyone toward the use of technology to improve instruction. (BZ)