Empowering Generation Beta: Positioning Artificial Intelligence Literacy as the New Electricity in Education

The current cohort of learners, referred to as Generation Beta, is growing up in an era where artificial intelligence literacy is emerging as a critical component of digital education. National Education policy 2020 is a revolutionary step for fostering AI literacy among students. This article investigates the significance of developing AI-integrated curricula in Indian educational institutions, and outlines implementation strategies that align with the country's socio-economic and technological landscape. AI learning could bring learning opportunities and foster young children's AI literacy in terms of AI concepts, practices and perspectives. This study argues that researchers and educators need a framework for integrating AI literacy into technological literacy, where the latter is viewed as a multiliteracy. This study thus aims to critically analyse and discuss different components of AI literacy with particular emphasis on their intersection and contribution to technological literacy.