"Careful and sophisticated thinking" required

My thoughts are interrelating with other materials I have recently read and heard..... such as from 

Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age, which acknowledges how our minds and interaction have changed with the changing technologies and suggests ways of handling it, including the important of reflective thought. This line of thinking is also heard from MIT professor Sherry Turkle, sociologist, psychologist and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self.  I recently watched a presentation she gave on the topic of her book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. In that presentation, she suggests that instructors should focus first on encouraging reflection THEN collaborative work. She is observing a demise of reflective thought, which is that level of thought Ken Bain suggests is necessary to be an effective instructor. There is no "quick fix", nor is there, to put it in the current vernacular, "an app for that" to be one of the "best instructors". 

I may wish to be able to read a book like What the Best College Teachers Do and come away with a set of methods to use but Bain states clearly in the first chapter that such is not possible. There are underlying principles which have been drawn out from this study, but not easy tasks to memorize and add to the teacher toolbelt. In other words.... instructors must apply the same critical and reflective thinking when reading this book that they should be guiding their students through in their classes.