Interactive technologies in teaching the humanities: in search of modern models of teaching

The article is devoted to study interactive learning technologies with the aim of identifying qualitatively new char- acteristics of modern educational environment. The article examines the process of transformation of modern methods of teaching subject to the development of digital technologies, defining outlook, needs and life queries of modern young generation. Taking into account the last factor, the authors propose the typology of interactive technologies that can be used by a teacher at lectures or by students, preparing for lectures for humanitarian disci- plines. Active integration of education in the internet space puts in front of the modern teacher a number of tasks: 1) the teacher himself, in addition of professionalism, should have high mobility, communicative skills, the ability to self-education and retraining, interaction with students on equal; 2) teacher should take the position of the moderator in relation to the students, giving them right choice and the ability of self-expressing not just on practical classes, but also on lectures. The student becomes an active translator of knowledge, as the main value for modern generation is knowledge, received with a personal experienced way, not given by the teacher from the outside. Modern model of learning, built on the methods of interactive learning during the classroom and in internet space, can conditionally be called “synchronous”, that is mobile and designed so that students could prove themselves and their knowledge taking into account their own needs and life queries.