The article discusses the issue of integrating educational activities with the use of innovative teaching methods, gaming technologies. The formation of integration in educational activities is a problem that arose a long time ago and is one of the most urgent in education to this day. The main problems of modernization of education in Russia, approaches to teaching schoolchildren, which should make cardinal changes in education, are justified. An experimental study of the development of the integration of the cognitive activity of students in Technology lessons was carried out on the basis of school No. 15 in Nizhny Novgorod. Diagnostics were carried out according to the method of psychologist B.K. Pashnev. The conclusion of the study that the integration of cognitive activity is, first of all, an active study of the surrounding reality by a person, was substantiated. Cognitive activity cannot exist without the need for independent study and assimilation of various knowledge and skills, as well as the very important ability to analyze one's own actions and evaluate them. The effectiveness of the use of game teaching methods in Technology lessons at school has been proven on the basis of the work carried out. [For the complete volume, "Digital Education in Russia and Central Asia. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects. Volume 65," see ED675848.]