ABSTRACT
This chapter draws upon data from a research project undertaken in late 2011 in Melbourne, Australia and contributes to the discussion about the ways, in which the social web might support the civic participation, especially, of young people. A challenge for all Australian schools then, is how to make real the promise of blended learning opportunities, where classrooms make optimal use of both the face-to-face and the virtual environments available to them, so that viable and meaningful learning with technologies is achieved for students and teachers. Specifically, the use of the social web in schools and its implications for enhancing young people's civic learning and citizenship engagement were investigated. Three cycles of the National Assessment Program Civics and Citizenship (NAP-CC) and National Assessment Program information and communication technology (NAP-ICT) programmers have been conducted and reported on in Australia. The approaches to participation/engagement in learning and the curricula can be described as being a citizenship model of learning.
