Screen 12 -- Should Promote Critical Thinking

With the aid of the computer, the writer constructs the text as a dynamic network of verbal and visual symbols. These electronic symbols in the machine seem to be an extension of a network of ideas in the mind itself. More effectively than the codex or the printed book, the computer reflects the mind as a web of verbal and visual elements in a conceptual space. (Jay David Bolter Writing Space, 207).

"Kenneth Burke explains how thinking which does not include thinking about thinking is merely problem solving, an activity carried out very well by trouts" (Is Teaching Still Possible? 329).