Principled Innovation® Discovery Dice Game
Principled Innovation places character and values at the center of our decisions and actions,shaping innovative and ethical approaches to teaching, learning and technology. Ensuring teams are operating with the same intentions when embarking on a new project is a critical piece of successful PI planning. The PI discovery dice game helps teams reflect on the intentions, impact and value of our work.
Whether you’re brainstorming new ideas, evaluating projects, or strengthening team alignment, the game encourages critical thinking, meaningful dialogue, and collaborative problem-solving.
Ensuring teams are operating with the same intentions when starting a new project is a critical piece of successful PI planning. The PI discovery dice game helps teams reflect on the intentions, impact, and value of our work.
The Discovery Dice game was developed as a collaboration between the PI team and the Office of the University Provost at Arizona State University.
The PI team at Arizona State University developed the Principled Innovation® Framework with the support of a generous gift from the Kern Family Foundation.
We invite you to share your feedback and ideas with us at pi@asu.edu.
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The Principled Innovation® Discovery Dice Game places character and values at the center of our decisions and actions, shaping innovative and ethical approaches to teaching, learning, and technology.
Ensuring teams are operating with the same intentions when starting a new project is a critical piece of successful PI planning.
The Principled Innovation® Discovery Dice Game helps teams reflect on the intentions, impact, and value of our work.
Each of the dice represent a character domain designed to guide ethical and value-driven solutions for the innovations we create.
There are two moral (maroon) and two civic (blue) dice included to encourage deeper exploration of these often complex domains.
💡 There are no wrong answers — sharing different ideas, opinions and perspectives are encouraged. Critical thinking makes for the most successful end result.
The object of the game is to critically think through ideas you and your team would like to advance. In some cases, you may not have a specific idea in mind — that’s OK, there is fun to be had (and great conversations to follow) in dreaming up new solutions to all kinds of challenges.
Whether your team has an existing idea that you’ve been working through or not, develop a guiding question to focus on for the game and write it down.
Example: "What if we could use AI to enhance the student experience?"
Each player should then select at least one of the questions rolled (players can choose the same question) and jot their ideas down with the team’s question in mind.
Once everyone has finished writing their answers, players can either go around the table and share their answers individually or designate a space for each question rolled.
Have players post their answers for all to review, then discuss as a group and think about the outcomes.
Alternatively, players can discuss any answers that may have surprised or intrigued them, or made them think differently to get the conversation started.
✅ Your team can choose to continue rolling new questions and complete as many rounds as you wish.
End the game by identifying any action items or next steps the team or individuals can take to keep the new ideas and suggestions discussed moving forward.
Teams may wish to keep the jotted-down answers for future reference and inspiration.
Access the PI toolkit library with expanded activities and facilitation instructions at: pi.education.asu.edu.