The article discusses the use of digital technologies, as well as active teaching methods for the development of students' intellectual abilities. In addition, one of the urgent problems of our time was discussed – the use of digital educational technologies in school education. In the article, its relevance was determined and studied by a number of factors. The article examines the need to bring educational institutions of modern society as close as possible to modern digital technologies. The psychological and pedagogical literature compares and analyzes the insufficient development of the methodology of this problem, the need to improve specially developed teaching methods for digital technologies and the development of intellectual abilities of schoolchildren. The ways of solving the problems caused by the lack of equipment for the use of new information technologies in schools and in-depth education of children in the digital education environment are proposed. The article examines the possibilities of using the digital educational environment in the educational process and its impact on the formation of intellectual abilities of schoolchildren. The article also examines a number of needs in the development of pedagogical conditions for the development of intellectual abilities of older and preschool children in the process of using the digital educational environment in educational organizations. The authors of the article intend to continue their research.