Digital technologies at the English lessons: efficiency issue

the article presents the results of empirical research on the use of digital technologies at the English lessons. The research was conducted in the St. Petersburg Gymnasium № 505 in 2018-2020 years. It is based on the typical ideas of effective digital and web technologies introduced in a standard school lessons. It is proved English-language search engines such as virtual assistants Siri and Alisa cannot be considered as learning technologies. The authors describe problems of applying similar methods at the English lessons. The phenomenon of «content blindness» is confirmed by the research. Based on the data obtained during the research, the effectiveness of methods of interaction with digital environment in order to achieve meta-subject learning outcomes is substantiated.