Apple Remote?

There was a lot of discussion at our staff meeting about laptops coming to the high school. What were are concerns, hopes, and fears. One topic was the policing of what the students were doing during a lesson. How is this monitored? If the desks are not set up strategically so teachers can view the screens easy enough, how do we know if the students are taking notes, etc? These were all valid concerns. Apple Remote was mentioned, but not explained, so the high school staff is not sure how this works.

On the other hand, if parameters are set and the lesson is engaging enough to keep the students interest, then do we need to worry about "policing" what they are doing during class? I constantly walked around my classroom and I constantly am telling kids to get off YouTube, do your work, close out of that site. It's frustrating and time consuming. Sure, you can tell the student to log out (then they cannot complete their assignment), you can give them detention (I hate giving detention for this), or you can continue to "police" and hope they are completing their assignments as they sneak behind your back visiting other sites.