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Unfortunately, when you say big data in educational circles it applies only to data about educational outcomes not students tapping into scientific research data.

The horizon report is an annual look at emerging technologies that are impacting education. I find it a useful resource for understanding how science and science education are shifting.

A nice introduction to data deluge, data science, and data literacy in education.

This talk addresses a wide range of issues in computer science education. The primary argument is that there are a set of skills that transcend the discipline and should be part of everyones skill set. I see lots of parallels with data literacy.  Presented by Mark Guzdial, a professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology.

President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) recommends changing the culture of undergraduate science education.

Sandra Porter's project on bioinformatics education. Their tagline is "using data to make sense of the world."

I think this argument about pedagogical content knowledge has direct relevance to teaching scientific data literacy skills. We don't even have clear ideas about what our goals are - making it very difficult to build expertise in this area.