The article discusses the use of technologies of the Internet of things in different spheres of human activity. It offers the implementation of this technology in education. The authors formulate the concept of the Internet of things, the history, the results of research and practical implementation of this technology. The article discusses the use of technologies of the Internet of things in teaching informatics and describes the idea of implementing the concept of "The Smart Classroom" technologies of the Internet of things. The authors provide a scheme of the informatiсs classroom and present a list of the required standard equipment for the successful functioning of the technologies of the Internet of things without special technical solutions. The article describes the possibility of using the technique of distributed teaching of informatics using the technology of the Internet of things and provides an outline of the informatics lesson in the classroom with elements of the Internet of things. The authors describe the stages of the lesson, the principles of students’ division into groups, and analyze the conditions and constraints of successful implementation of the methods of teaching science in the system of “The Smart Classroom”. The authors also formulate the results of the survey on implementation of tasks presented in the article.